My most significant flattener from Tom Freidman’s lecture was the subject of Netscape. When Netscape went public for the price of $28 this caused a huge flattening of society. It gave the everyday person the ability to have that technological advantage like the rich and the smart. It broadened the audience base for the Internet and made communications that much easier to access. Netscape gave the access for people to use the Internet to be able to watch videos, movies, and much more things. The Flattening wasn’t really seen at first by the everyday people. Netscape offered the ability to do almost anything the customer needed to when they provided their product for cheap but a very effective price.
The Internet browser gave the people to communicate with people all over the world. Netscape gave that access and was a leader for awhile because of it. Netscape gave the stepping blocks for other internet browsers as well, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox. Freidman stated that "there was suddenly available a platform for collaboration that all kinds of people from around the globe could now plug and play, compete and connect on—in order to share work, exchange knowledge, start companies, and invent and sell goods and services". Overall because this gave people that access to the browser so early it gave people the ability to do as they please when they logged onto the Internet. Overall Netscape led the way and was an example for all the other search engines that are around today.
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I completely agree with what you had to say about Netscape. As you said it was sort of like the stepping stone for the internet explorers' and Mozilla firefoxs'. I believe that this is the strongest flattener because the internet now is apart of every day life. Without the internet where would we be?
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