EOTO reflection

 During our Each One Teach One day where we presented our technologies, there were some people that talked about their specific technology that I found very interesting and also did a great job in their presentation. 

One technology that I found very interesting was Twitter and which was talked about by Griffin Wright. I like to see the introduction of Twitter and how it chose to compete with its other social media counterparts. Twitter is a very influential and important part of today's media and it had a lot of room to grow at first with the creators and with the website itself. With Twitter being one of the biggest media platforms in all of technology it was very interesting to see the impact that it's had on society and how it got to where it is today. 

Another technology that I found quite interesting was the invention of paper.  it started out with the Han Dynasty in China and paper was so influential because it could make storing and sharing information so much easier than it was before which was very influential at the time and helped a lot of people in the coming centuries. It also helped drive down the cost of printing materials because it made it much more accessible to everyone, not just the super-rich wealthy people who could print off anything onto another paper-like substance. It was so influential because you look at the paper today and it's still being used and hasn't really changed since that time which just shows that it's been a very good and important technology in the world and very influential on that culture and time period. 

The last technology that I want to talk about was the telegraph. The telegraph was the first way that people could communicate long-range in a short amount of time before they had to relay a message on paper or have someone deliver it from one place to another other which was very difficult and hard to communicate long distances efficiently. I kind of found it interesting that multiple people claim to create the Telegraph and it's not really set in stone to say who has made it and who invented it adds to the mysterious side of technology and the creation of it and I just found that super cool. 

The two teams that mainly contributed to creating the telegraph were William Cook and Charles Wheatstone or Samuel Morse, Leonard Gail, and Alfred Vail. They both created something like the Telegraph and they were used for very different reasoning. One was only used for the British Railroad while the other team created Theirs to be used for commercial use. The telegraph was important because it had long-distance communication and you can communicate faster but later down the years it was eventually replaced by the telephone the radio the television and the Internet but it had its place in society for a very long time and was super influential.