In this modern era of information, the internet has been opening up a world of opportunities to any with the resources and know-how to take advantage of it. Information of many shapes and sizes is now distributed globally at the click of a button. Scientific journals, conspiracy theories, fine arts, and totally new media are being distributed on the internet. One form of information has been slow to get to the internet, and that is animation. There have been limited advances made up to this time, but animation, as well as any other broadcast type media (live action, even audio.) T understand why this is, a basic understanding of the internet must be understood. Then, a survey will be made of current attempts at dealing with these issues, and then a glance toward what the future holds. But first, to understand the issues at hand, we must have a general understanding of what the oft-misunderstood internet actually is. The nature of the internet itself is not terribly complicated. It consists .
Human history is divided into periods and some periods are named after the main economic resource of the era. We have the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, both named after the metals men had discovered for making tools and weapons. We also have the Industrial Age, during which scientific method has given people a new framework for thought. It also brought a new technology that mechanized production and replaced human or animal energy with steam. .
Soon after the discovery of steam, a British mathematician Charles Babbage conceived the idea of the computer. He believed that he could produce a mechanical device that would be able to perform a string of related calculations. Babbage believed that information could be manipulated by a machine if it was first converted into numbers. We can call Charles Babbage the father of Information Age. .
Today, information seems to be becoming the most important economic resource, even more important .