How Internet Technology Has Changed Canada

Over the years Canada has changed in many ways, some changes were positive, and some were negative. Internet technology has played a huge role in Canada today. Before Canada had internet technology society lived very differently, there was no google, no cell phones, or any smart technology readily available for the public. Society had to write letters to communicate and use data cards and libraries to find information. In the earlier days of internet, internet was strictly used for the military in the US. However, we now know that internet is one of the most popular applications used today. The military used internet for communication purposes, it all started with APRANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) this allowed the military

Back when Canada was first introduced to the internet it did not provide the amount of accessibility as it does now. When APRANET first came out it was only assessable to ten nodes and nineteen hosts, whereas now in Canada alone over 35 million people have access to the internet (Internet World Stats, 2023). The Canadian government developed their own network called Telidon back in 1970, this network became available to Canadians nine years later. Telidon was supposed to offer on-demand access to information, however this network did not catch on and failed, but before Telidon network failed it provided society in Canada with a preview of what internet technology could do. From there internet technology became the future, allowing people to understand a new way of how information can be exchanged. In 1989, the first search engine was created by a Student at Mcgill University, this search engine was known as

Just two years after the World Wide Web came to Canada approximately 18% of Canadians were using the internet and it affected a lot of aspects of life. As the World Wide Web become more popular in the early 2000s 53% of Canadians were using internet. As internet technology advanced internet began to change the way Canadians learned, worked, bought products, communicated, etc. Stores began to put out online catalogues, schools become to offer online courses, and CBC radio started to offer downloads of the radio show (The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2021). The expansion of internet is transforming Canada into a digital economy. In 2022, there were 36.89 million internet users in Canada. The number of Canadians using internet keeps climbing, in only 12 years nine million four hundred ninety thousand Canadians became internet users (Statista, 2022). This is because internet has changed the way Canada does things, nowadays almost everything requires internet and internet is at everyone’s fingertips. Internet has become a crucial part to Canadas’s productivity and success. Internet allowed Canada to advance along with the rest of the world, providing more success and