Media Magazine 55 has an overview of technology journalist Bill Thompson’s conference presentation on ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ It’s an excellent summary of the internet’s brief history and its impact on society. Go to our Media Magazine archive , click on MM55 and scroll to page 13 to read the article ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ Answer the following questions: 1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson? B uilt in US universities, were linked together into a single global system – an Interconnected Network. I started using it that autumn when I began a master’s degree in Computer Science and discovered we could email and exchange files with people at other universities. I didn’t actually know I was using the internet at the time and it wasn’t really until 1987 when I was working at Acorn Computers – th...