New+Technology

In between 2000 and 2009 thousands of inventions were discovered. These inventions have completely changed the way the world interacts with eachother. One important invention was the iPod. On October 23, 2001, the iPod; a portable music digital player that can hold hundreds of songs, pictures, and a number of videos; was introduced to the world by Apple Computers. This was after Apple also introduced iTunes, a program that converts audio CDs into compressed audio files and organizes music. ​Cellular phones have also changed dramatically. Since 2000 cell phones have become smaller and one is not just limited to talking. Cell phones can also have internet and store music and instead of speaking one can type messages to others on their key pad. These messages are called "text messages." The world has many new ways of communicating including the internet. Billions of websites have been created in the past 10 years. However none have affected the world like these sites have. In 2003 and 2004, MySpace and Facebook, two social networking sites, were created to link classmates, co-workers, family, friends, and old acquaintences together to communicate. Many people create profiles on these sites to get in touch with friends and meet new people. People in different countries and connect and share videos and information with eachother. Musicians and artists use these sites to get discovered and the unemployed can find jobs. Another internet site that has changed the world is YouTube. Created in 2005 by Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Sawed Karim, YouTube is a site where people can post and watch videos and podcasts. One can even post YouTube videos on different sites like MySpace and Facebook. Now people all over the world can watch newscasts and other personal from different countries. Although all this technology makes things a lot easier, some pychological experts say that texting and communicating online can affect how people communicate with eachother in real life conversations. It also takes a toll on proper English as people abbreviate words and phrases to make things easier to type or text.