Hey team! My name is Sarah Abass and this is my second semester at Texas State studying Mass Communication. I’m originally from Iraq but was born in the States and lived in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and lastly Dubai where I completed my undergraduate degree in Advertising. I’ve been working on a five-year plan that ultimately ends with me starting up my own magazine. Attaining my masters sets that plan into motion, plus it doesn’t hurt that I’m passionate about Instagram and have began building the base for my magazine.
Full disclosure, I must have stopped and started The Internet Behind the Web approximately three times. That part of me still on summer vacation would not let the graduate student side of me focus. Therefore, I resorted to taking notes while watching to ensure my concentration. After minute nine, I could not take my eyes off it! I was most fascinated by where the Internet can be traced back to 1957 after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite into space. Trying to keep up, the United States initiated several research and developed many projects, which formed the ARPA.
By the time the video was over, I ended up linking three friends, my mom and my sister and told them to give it a watch. I found this video incredibly fascinating because, yea I knew the Internet was there…right at my finger tips. But how it got there had never cross my mind until now. Its incredible how the Internet has grown from Vannevar Bush’s facilitating a connection between the United States federal government, the American scientific community and business to what it is now: a source of news, entertainment, communication, shopping and so much more – or a lovable, giant monster.
I’m so thankful for what this giant monster has become. Moving back to the States and leaving my life behind in the Middle East would have been more challenging if it wasn’t for these methods of communication. I’m passionate about social media and the various forms of communication and the history the Internet is what made that a reality. The giant world of the Internet has made the globe a smaller place to live.