I love telling people about new technologies, and find that Steemit is a great place to publish articles where things are explained. I will do a few posts around a few topics. For a start I want to write about how the internet started and link it with why I believe that one DAPP will ensure mass adoption of crypto currencies.

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Sure there is the likes of Ripple, which is seen as the new backbone of the banking system when there infrastructure for cross border trading. I am however not sure how that will ensure mass adoption, as I am not aware of any incentives to the holders of XRP except for a possible increase in the price of Ripple.

Let's look at the history of the internet?

The internet went through a lot before it was actually useful. At a high level I want to break it down in a few steps. The actual reason for the internet's birth can be brought back to a single statement TCPIP, a protocol which were created by the US Defence force to allow various computers to be connected in a network.

WWW or the world wide web as it used to be called. In Short Internet 1.0

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In the initial stages of the internet it was very frustrating to connect with a 14 400 kbps modem, and only people with a bit of technology savvy were able to connect to the internet. This is very similar to what we are experiencing in the current crypto market. There is not a lot of people who understand Crypto, blockchain, what it is and how to use it. Only fairly technical people understand what to do with it and how to use it.

This however changed over time and at the end of the day websites became more user friendly, and through time more and more websites started. At the end of the day all industries realized that if you do not have a website (storefront) on the internet, you are falling behind the rest of the world.

At this stage the internet was very unstructured as there were no search engines or googles which you could use to find what you were looking for. This problem ensured that very successful companies like Google were born.

In summary - One thing changed the internet. The mass adoption of websites as a necessity to have a presence to be regarded as a serious company. The world wide web was also a one direction communication between the user and the company. You could not really communicate with anybody on the website and in the initial stages there were Contact Us sections with a telephone number and you phoned the company.

Web 2.0 E-Commerce

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The second phase of the internet, started when internet users became more demanding around the usability and capability of websites. Why do you want to go to a website and you can't physically buy the items on sale. As a result the e-commerce industry enabled users to purchase items on the internet and have it delivered t the convenience of your home. More and more websites enabled e-commerce to the extend that if you do not have an e-commerce enabled website, you were losing market share. Companies like Amazon and the likes have changed the way people shop.

Then the social media industry changed the way people communicate. Facebook, Twitter and the likes are on most peoples mobile phones

E-commerce must be one of the single most important factors which changed the way people transacted.

I don't like to write articles which takes to much time to read and will complete this in a follow up

Happy Steeming!

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