Seb Emina
February 2003
This article focuses on how far technology has come, especially the Internet.
The Internet has come a long way and is used in more than computers now days. And technology is still changing and evolving, updating constantly with new products and services available and new applications for the Internet to be used with.
But, as far as the owners of that Internet café are concerned, my ‘traditional’ Internet usage habits mean I am already becoming part of an old-fashioned minority. Using the Internet for reading? How 2001! Floppy disks? How 1997! In fact, most of the computers in this and every other Australian Internet café I seem to visit have already been dedicated to something else entirely: the playing of video games...
Brand new technology can be out dated in a matter of years, with a bigger and better replacement. For example in the passage above, floppy disks have been replaced with any from CDs and DVDs to memory sticks and external hard drives.
The Internet is not just for research and reading articles, it has numerous other uses including gaming. Online gaming is a booming community with hundreds of games available to be played online with or against friends. One of the excitements of playing online, the writer of the article claimed, was that you don't know who you are actually playing against,
Imagine! When I take down an enemy sniper, it could be being controlled by Britney Spears. Or Prince Harry. You’d never know…
But even broadband now days will not be fast enough to carry the vast amounts of data needed to be playing games in 10s of maybe even several years time. And the two top of game gaming companies Sony and Microsoft will have to compete hard to be promoting products and making profits. They will have to offer more services and better features to keep attracting customers to their products over their rivals.
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