Dial 'F' for Frankenstein to World Wide Web

Monica B. Santos

NO3

From Phone Networks to World Wide Web

The topic discussed last Tuesday that had the most significance to me was about the Dial ‘F’ for Frankenstein movie. The film was about people trying to make pranks and scaring other people through the use of telephone networks. By way of this film, a man named Berners Lee was motivated to invent something that could be useful to human beings that functions similarly in a way like the telephone. He then came up with what we call now the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web serves as a connection between computers. Through this, people can access a wide range of documents that could be a big help to their everyday life, most especially for the students and workers.

First and foremost, I didn’t choose this topic just because our group was the one who reported on this but I was really struck by how the movie inspired technology. I realized that if this movie, Dial ‘F’ for Frankenstein, wasn’t made, maybe the World Wide Web would not exist nowadays. The World Wide Web obviously is better than Phone Networks. In Phone Networks, individuals just speak to one another. The only sense that people who use telephones need is the sense of hearing. While in the development of the World Wide Web, people can chat and call, even with videos that enable them to see the people they are talking to. There are also games, dictionaries, calculators, and many more applications that can be accessed through the World Wide Web, which the function of telephones cannot give to people. Consequently, almost everything can be found in the World Wide Web.

I can’t imagine our life without the World Wide Web. It helps every individual in the planet Earth. Without the World Wide Web, students will have a hard time in doing their assignments, projects and thesis; teachers will have limited topics to be taught to students because books might also have limited concepts; families who are far away from each other or separated by the...