August 2019


INTERNET RESOLUTION, ITS ADVANTAGES, AND DISADVANTAGE
The Internet revolution started during the 1960s when PC masters in Europe started to trade data from a fundamental PC to a remote terminal by separating information into little bundles of data that could be reassembled at the less than desirable end. The framework was called bundle exchanging. In 1968, the U.S. Division of Defense drew in researchers to make a national interchanges framework. Trying different things with bundle exchanging, the administration researchers inevitably connected a few PCs over phone lines to work as a solitary framework. The framework was known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).

By 1983, researchers stretched out the utilization of ARPANET to shape the early Internet, a huge system interfacing the inside frameworks of certain colleges and labs. Clients had the option to trade electronic mail (presently known as email) and information, get to PCs at different areas, and impart through newsgroups (one-subject dialog gatherings) and announcement sheets (message-posting destinations). These trades requested propelled PC aptitudes, and the Internet remained a puzzle to those without preparing.

In 1989, English researcher Tim Berners-Lee (1955) started to chip away at a framework he would, in the long run, call the World Wide Web. His objective was to make the Internet available to everybody. Berners-Lee planned a standard arrangement of conventions, rules that make a careful configuration, or example of course of action, for correspondence between frameworks. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) turned into the standard interchange language on the Web. (Hypertext is any content that can connect to records in different areas. Photographs and different pictures sound, and videos with connections are called hypermedia.)
The following pivotal advance in the production of the internet was to build up a server the PC program that stores data and conveys it as Web pages starting with one PC then onto the next. The main Web server in the United States, created at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, California, went live toward the finish of 1991. At long last, to peruse the Web, clients required a web browser, a program used to see the interface with different sorts of Internet assets. Berners-Lee built up a content-based web browser in 1992. With the conventions, server, and Web program set up, the World Wide Web was accessible to the general population. Somewhere in the range of 1993 and 1995, the World Wide Web (www, or the Web), an easy to understand data sharing system framework, discreetly appeared and started to spread. In its initial fifteen years, the Web reshaped U.S. communications, organizations, and legislative issues, powered worldwide monetary development and turned into a focal element in the everyday lives of in excess of a billion people.
The PC upset that began in the last piece of the twentieth century is conceivably similarly as huge as the modern upheaval that started two centuries before it - and may well end up having considerably more effect in transit that individuals live, work and speak with one another.
One of the significant improvements to leave the advances in PC and correspondence innovation was the production of the web, a development with impacts on the financial and social advancement of mankind that are as yet advancing and being surveyed.
Given the colossal impacts on work and amusement, in addition to the powerful further democratization of data, the long-haul impacts might be social orders advancing various structures, just as people building up an alternate perspective on themselves.
The impacts may not all be certain, be that as it may. Expanding confinements and spying by governments, youngster erotic entertainment, harassing is only a couple of instances of negatives that the web has carried with it.
Given its immense effect, I figured it would intrigue and educational to list the principal points of interest and inconveniences of the web insurgency underneath.


ADVANTAGES OF INTERNET REVOLUTION
Ø Speed of correspondence – The web implies that individuals can convey utilizing an assortment of media types progressively over long separations now. Previously, the phone and fax machines were the main gadgets that could impart progressively and they had real restrictions.
Ø Intelligent connection up – Unlike customary media, for example, books, which are static and perused just, the web can give benefits that always update and are truly intuitive. That implies that numerous wellsprings of data, from a certain point of view, never leave date, as occurs with customary media, for example, printed books or papers.
Ø Worldwide scale – The internet connections up to the whole planet in a manner that has never existed. It is really universal and unites mankind.
Ø The opportunity of thoughts/majority rules system – For the first run through ever, there can be a free trade of thoughts on nearby, national and worldwide scale. Severe systems presently the battle to control their populace's entrance to news and other data and the web can be a helpful device for those sorting out challenges.
Ø The pooling of information – The sum of human learning and experience can be put away on the web and be made available to anybody on the planet who has a PC and a web association.
Ø New types of correspondence – email, webcams, talk rooms, and sites are only a portion of the new ways that individuals have of conveying which wouldn't have appeared without the formation of the web. Wi-fi innovation and incorporation of cell phone innovation imply that individuals never again need to convey tremendous measures of data around in massive things like books and CDs when they are moving, and can rather store data on the web.
Ø Web-based business – Browsing stores and looking at costs, web-based banking, purchasing plane tickers, and requesting items from the solace of your house is currently an ordinary reality, on account of the web.
Ø Excitement – The web has made an insurgency in media outlets and gave huge increments in the decisions accessible for individuals, regardless of whether it's music, motion pictures, or new types of movement, for example, internet games. Present-day ages approach huge measures of media, just as expanded opportunity to encounter things like films and TV appears at once and place that suits them.


DISADVANTAGES OF THE INTERNET REVOLUTION
Ø Data over-burden – It is ending up progressively hard for individuals to stay aware of the measure of data they can get over the web. Numerous laborers currently spend a huge extent of their lives simply perusing and noting messages, for example.
Ø Absence of protection – It is practically difficult to control what individual data individuals put on the web and once it is out there, you can't take it back. Everything from humiliating photos to slurs on your character, or data, for example, telephone number or address would all be able to cause issues.
Ø Expanding government controls and confinements - Recent outrages have demonstrated that it isn't simply abusive systems like in North Korea and Iran, where governments have checked out keeping an eye on web clients. The Edward Snowden disclosures uncovered the degree of web spying in Western nations like the USA and the UK.
Ø Privateer media and unlawful document sharing – The simplicity with which computerized media can be replicated and shared implies that specialists and makers presently battle to keep their licensed innovation rights on things that they make, regardless of whether it is music, motion pictures, composing, or programming.
Ø Capacity to focus abbreviated – There is proof that the web is affecting the manner in which we think and what we are presently increasingly centered around engrossing just short bits of data. This implies we regularly have a wide inclusion of learning, however, it is shallow – customary media, for example, books, gave us unquestionably more profundity.
Ø Erotic entertainment - The web is soaked with sex entertainment, making surfing it an awkward and conceivably damaging background for guardians and kids.
Ø Spam and undesirable promoting – Although the web's points might be respectable, practically speaking, quite a bit of it is stopped up with undesirable publicizing and we invest a great deal of our energy online simply attempting to deal with it, erase, or evade it. Malware, trojans, and infections additionally sit idle and cause major issues.
Ø Data and wholesale fraud – The web makes it simple to take gigantic measures of individual information from people and associations. The unoriginal idea of the web makes it simple to counterfeit a character or take somebody else's.
Ø Digital fighting – The expanding reliance on present-day social orders on the web implies that digital fighting is currently a reality, with the potential for nations to have their military frameworks, transport, media, medical clinics, power and correspondence systems and so forth thumped out by digital assaults.
Ø Social disengage – Some psychologists are worried that undeniably individuals are mingling basically as opposed to doing it eye to eye, which may cause passionate and social issues, particularly for youngsters and their brain, correspondence, and intuitive abilities are yet creating.


A few weeks ago, I was driving on Apapa-Oshodi expressway and stopped briefly under the Ilasamaja Bridge to pick a call. Suddenly, a Danfo bus pulled up beside me, the bus conductor jumped out and landed by my side. I thought I was about to be robbed!
However, the conductor had other plans...
'Oshodi Oshodi Oshodi o...'
I heaved a sigh of relief and breathed deeper, then I saw a guy I'd known for long. Years of separation couldn't play on me any trick. He was one of the brightest guys in our class back then and had won for us a couple of Inter-School competitions.
He was of a modest middle-class family that valued education and when he says a word is 'adjectival proverb' or 'future present past participle', we dared not argue because he was usually and always right.
Always ahead. He had a way of mentally working out complex mathematical equations without writing. He was a silent threat to the 'booboo' teachers and would sometimes challenge their answers' which later earned him cold hates from some of the teachers. Gbenga was that hot and was named one of the most likely to succeed in our class.
'Oshodi…Oshodi…Oshodi oke o…' He continued.
I pushed out my head from the car and 'holla' his nickname.
'Gbengene!'
He was shocked. Only his old allies would call him that name, I guessed. He looked intently at me and then screamed. I came out of the car and we hugged fiercely, like old thieves, gallons of his sweat rubbing all over me, but I cared not. I was happy to see my old friend.
‘Viko ómó'lòpè, what’s up? O ti sha-pra-pra gan o...'
He hailed loudly in street parlance. We, however, couldn't talk as he had to get back to work, and his driver 'oga' was blaring the horn angrily. So I took his phone number and watched him go adoringly.
Gbenga ran back to the moving Danfo bus, jumped in and clung tightly to the door as if his entire life depended on it. He gave me a parting smile and flashed a decolorized teeth supposedly darkened by excessive marijuana smoking and deep-seated apathy to dental hygiene.
God, what happened?
I stood, rooted to that spot and sadly watched him disappear into the fast-moving Lagos metro.
Then came a flurry of emotion.
I cried.
As I drove on, I flashed back to another flip-sided slice of life that made me conclude after all that life is nothing but a scam.
I was on Admiralty Way in Lekki and stopped at AP/Tantalizer Junction to shine my shoe. I was admiring the Aboki doing his work with much passion when a black Range Rover halted suddenly behind me and the screech of the tires made me dive for safety.
God forbid bad thing!
While on the safer side, I glanced back to see the idiot behind the wheel, then I saw a familiar face. 'No! Haba! It couldn't be him' I argued within me, then wiped my face for a clearer vision. The loser was still there, smiling stupidly. The face rang a louder bell, and of course, I remembered him.
'What in hell could Bala be doing inside this Range Rover?' I queried myself.
It is tragic to be dumb, and a tragedy to be stupid, but it is an incurable curse to be both. Bala was dumb and stupid! His parents were extremely poor! That, conjoined with his non-existent academic performance which affected his confidence and social life, he was simply termed a failure and had severally been assured he wouldn't amount to anything in life. He agreed, and we all agreed with him. So we treated him as nobody, a scumbag.
‘Well, maybe Bala had finally fulfilled his destiny and become a driver as predicted' I concluded, grinning sheepishly.
What a stupid miscalculation!
Balarabe, the dullest guy in my class was the proud owner of the R2. Back then, this guy could not even write a decimal point with a bottle, but now signs cheques with gold pen and cruises posh SUVs all around Lagos. We hung out at The Sailors Lounge and he told me how he reinvented himself. He attended few crash courses, changed his orientation, worked with a shipping company in Apapa Wharf, became hardworking and brutally honest. His boss loved him and mentored him in the shipping and importation business until he started his own company.
Wow!
Balarabe!
A CEO of a Shipping Company!!!
Bala!
Scum of the earth?!
I couldn't sleep that night as I kept musing over Gbenga and Bala.
So I concluded.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
It is truly not over until it is over.
Reinvent yourself, change your attitude and let honesty be your watchword.

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