In the latter half of the 90's, email began to emerge as the main body of communication tools for people, and from the 2000's, SNS began to emerge. It was still a big event in the history of the Internet, as it is still a well-established tool and culture. When I think about it, when I first interacted with the United States in the 1980s, it wasn't even a fax machine, it was a telex era. Telex is a recording communication method that uses telephone technology, and is used to type transmission text on paper tape. Since it was necessary to reduce the number of characters as much as possible, many abbreviations in European languages were born at this time. For example, "Thank you" is "THX", "By the way" is "BTW", and so on. Compared to that era, the advent of email was revolutionary. After all, as an attachment file, you can instantly send and receive documents of reasonable size, which is a big update to our way of working.
The 90's when the culture was greatly updated with the rise of email
Until then, I had to take the trouble to pick up the delivery items to be delivered to the manufacturer to the United States. It was a daily occurrence to arrive over there at 10 o'clock in the morning, hold a meeting, take one IC and return to the dragonfly on the flight at 13:00. At the transmission speed at that time, it took a couple of days to download the data stored in the IC online, so it was still faster to collect and deliver it directly from the site with baggage. Also, although it goes back and forth in chronological order, I really realized the benefits of SNS when I collapsed due to a cerebral infarction in 2014. I was temporarily hemiplegic, so I messed with my smartphone with one hand from the bed and posted my situation on Twitter. Then, warm messages were sent one after another from various people. I was deeply grateful for the encouragement that "Please do your best" and the advice that "My mother continued to rehabilitate like this and recovered to this point." From the point of view of the site where the cerebral infarction occurred, it can be said that it is a miracle that we can live well now. The existence of SNS was definitely the driving force, as I felt like I was returning on a drift turn while reaching the banks of the Sanzu River. Instead of the traditional one-on-one communication, you can talk with a lot of people you haven't seen yet, or you can make new contacts with old friends who haven't had a relationship for a while, and even gather the knowledge that each person has. What collective intelligence can do is a big culture brought about by SNS.
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