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Communication inventions

Intro

I listen to my classmates talk about different inventions that have changed the communication space. They went through the history of the invention and the impact of the invention and some even talked about what is the future of this invention if it was still going on today. There were a lot of inventions that were talked about but I just want to highlight a few.

The search engine 

So the first invention I want to highlight is the search engine. He was talked about how the search engine was a big step forward after the first public computer and Internet was available. It was made to help people find answers that they need. Just like how it is now you had to put in some keywords and it would give you a list of items close to your keyword. One thing interesting I thought about search engine was it was actually made from a university which was McGill University. Of course with invention like this it's hard to make money off because no one has to pay for the service so they made it a ad based service so they could make money off it. 

The first personal computer

Another invention I want to highlight is the first personal computer which is now known as the PC. Before people actually had their own computers the only people who had computers was scientists the government and the FBI which I think is interesting because of course they would need as much technology as possible but I'm interested what the computer could do before the PC. Now the first computer that was given out to the public was the Altair 8800. Of course now PC's have grown and everyone has a PC mostly now and it has been very helpful in today's time.