Glory to the sons of the internet

 Wikipedia vs E ncyclopedias I'm sure everyone is used wikis before. Wiki made access to verified information way more simpler. You can find anything you're interested within 5 minutes. And you can gain knowledge of any depth of accuracy by following links to more and more clarifying articles. As my mom said, when she was in the university before to learn something e.g. to write a thesis you'll be need to go to the library and hope that the book you're searching isn't taken yet. Before the Web people couldn't study as easy as now. The other question is how much can you rely on information from Wikipedia? What is the error rate? It turns out that if this is at least a little popular article, then the error will be noticed and corrected faster than in encyclopedias. Millions of people visit different pages and there're always people that have some knowledge and which can correct the mistake. Whereas an error that appeared in one paper encyclopedia can be repli

     Has become obsolete: Before online streaming people bought DVDs. This also applies to music. CD's was invented in 1979, DVD was invented in 1995. Then in 2001 Apple came out and presented iTunes. People could buy songs online individually instead of buying whole CDs. Almost the same happened with DVD/Blue-Ray. Platforms like Netflix, HBO and Hulu had ~1231% of sales income. So, since 2008 DVD sales have declined more than on 80%. Personally I've never bought CDs with music or films. Online streaming platforms have taken over this niche.      Survives to this day: Ray Tomplison invented email in 1971 by creating ARPANET's network mail. He developed Username@nameOfComputer format. And by the 1976 3/4 of all traffic was emails. Everyone is aware of email spam, but when did it started? Spam can be charted back almost to the start of Arpanet, but in early 90s it became a conspicuous issue.  To sum up, email is 51 years old technology but it became as necessary as phone numb