Technology has been
the engine of change in the history of civilizations, from fire to the wheel,
through the printing press or the steam engine. All these inventions
revolutionized the way of understanding the world, of communicating or
producing, but all were replaced at some time by a more advanced technology.
The Internet has shown
a total revolution in identifying knowledge and connecting people. At first,
the data was hung on pages that users read, because it only had text and
hypertext, and the interaction between the sender and the recipient of the message
was rather scarce. Gradually, he added images, graphics, gifs, videos and new
tools that allowed a higher level of interactivity, from email to platforms to
interact with other users such as MSN.