Netscape- The most significant flattener.

By far the most significant flattener discussed in Tom Friedmens lecture about his book was the discussion on Netscape. Netscape was created in 1995, not very long ago and look how far it has come. Everything we do now is through the internet including homework, banking, shopping and especially communication with friends. Contaction someone from another country used to be nearly impossible because of the cost of the call. With facebook and even skype you can message them, call and video chat your friends from anywhere for free, all because of Netscape making the internet public. I honestly do not know where my generation would be without easily accessible internet. I was four years old when Netscape made the internet public making it so i dont even remember a time without internet. Mostly every teenager I know has a smart phone where they spend hours out of their day on the internet through their phone checking facebook, email, or just searching the web. Which brings be to another flattener that was amazing. Nevermind picturing life without internet, but what if the interent did not have Google? The information that is on the interenet would not be easily accessable without it. In fact, I just searched when Google was created and became big and google.com is what I typed in the address bar. Such a little thing to us, changed the world as it was known as is not realized by many people until it is pointed out as Tom Freidmen did to us.