For everyone who doesn't know what ubiquitous means, I looked it up (on the internet) and it said the ability to be present everywhere at once and after thinking about it for a while I realized that in my opinion, this is the single most important aspect of the Internet which has changed our society. I know most people would say its the information thats most important but not all of it is right, you don't know what to trust and it can actually be quite hard to find unless you already know where to look and besides you could always take ten minutes and go to the library to access the exact same information except that you know what your getting is real.
I have had a computer in my house since I was born, I can't remember what kind of computer it was, the only thing I can remember about is that it played Space Invaders and Frogger. So I have always been around computers, I have always knowen how to use them. For me using a computer is second nature, its like switching on the tv. The closest thing we had to the internet before the internet were BBS's, BBS stands for bulliten board system. These were used before the cd-rom was ever invented so don't worry if you've never heard of it, most people haven't. A BBS was very simple, it was simply a persons home computer running a BBS program and people would connect to to this computer by using a modem and if you don't know what a modem is, it was a phone for your computer that would let two computers talk to each other. So you would phone up this BBS on your phone line, if you've ever picked up a phone while a fax was going through, your phone would make that same sound if you picked it up while a modem was running and if you've ever done that, the sound you hear is the information going between the two computers. BBS's were used for three main purposes sharing files, games and chatting(not like today but leave a message and check your responses a day or two later because only one person could use a BBS at one time).