The Internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee created the first website way back in 1991.  The World Wide Web is 20 years old and this infographic from KISSmetrics shows the evolution of web design from text-based pages with hyperlinks to HTML 5. I remember Flash, CSS and frames as important milestones of web design evolution. I also can’t forget how GeoCities democratized the Web and let all of us have “FREE” web pages. Today we all have blogs, Twitter accounts and Facebook pages but before all of these, there was GeoCities

Image courtesy of KISSmetrics .

Internet is developing quickly and changing the ways we live.  There are simple things you can do to save the Earth and money with the help of Internet. You can turn the power of Internet to cool global warming.

1-Prefer Online Shopping: If you can buy some of your needs online and stay off the road, you can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will save you gas and time.

2-Use Electronic Invoices: Electronic invoicing helps  businesses save vast amount of paper by eliminating the need for printed invoices. Electronic invoicing can also help customers to save time to reach and pay the invoices. The true environmental cost of traditional invoicing is more than paper. The printed invoices also need ink and energy to be printed gas to be transported to the customers. So using electronic invoices will save you paper,energy,gas and time which mean money.

3- Use Second Hand Books: The Internet is a great source to search & find & buy what you need. If you are a college student, textbooks take big bite from your budget. A student spends about $1000 a year on books. To hold costs down, students are searching for new and used textbooks at online stores and marketlaces. If you want a Textbook lookup, all you need is the ISBN number of the book you’re searching. You can save money and reduce the use of paper by using used books resell the books you don’t want to keep.

4-Donate or Recycle Your Electronic Equipments: As the number of electronic equipments we own increases, management of electronic wastes becomes more important. You can learn how to donate or recycle your old electronic equipments from web sites like TechSoup.org .

5-Learn More Green Tips: Internet is an ultimate source for learning DIY and green tips. Green Living Tips and  The Daily Green are only two of millions of web sites to reach green living tips and they’re all free.

6-Encourage Others To Conserve : Use all the tools of social networking; tweet, write blog posts, send emails about the environmet to share information about recycling and . For example, I try to write one tenth of my blog posts about green technology and the environment.

These 6 simple tips will help you reducing your energy use and budget which means less dependence on the fossil fuels and paper.

This is an old but unmissable funny poem, “If i controlled the Internet” from storyteller, writer and slam poet Rives; which he read at Ted conference in 2006. In this poem, Rives told he wanted to see a more personal and more  Internet and 3 years later the Internet has become much more personal, much more about me.

What would you do, if you controlled the Internet?

* You can find the whole text of the poem below the video.

If I controlled the internet?

You could auction your broken heart on Ebay
Take the money, go to Amazon,
Buy a phonebook for a country you’ve never been to
Call folks at random until you find someone
who flirts really well in a foreign language

If I were in charge of the internet
You could Mapquest your lover’s moodswings
Hang left at cranky
Right at preoccupied
U turn on silent treatment
All the way back to tongue kissing and good lovin’
You could navigate and understand every emotional intersection
Some days I’m as shallow as a backing pan
But I still stretch miles in all directions

If I own the internet
Napster Monster and Friendster-dot-com would be one big website
That way you could listen to cool music while you pretend to look for a job
and you’re really just chatting with your palls,

Heck if I ran the web
You could email dead people
They would not email you back
But you’d get an automated reply
Their name in your inbox
It’s all you wanted anyway
And a message saying: ‘Hey, it’s me. I miss you.’
Listen you’ll see, being dead is dandy.

Now you go back to raising kids
And waging peace
And craving candy

If I designed the internet
Childhood-dot-com would be a loop
Of a boy
In an orchard
With a ski pole for a sword
Trashcan lid for a shield, shouting
‘I am the emperor of oranges’
‘I am the emperor of oranges’
‘I am the emperor of oranges’
Now follow me OK

Grandma-dot-com would be a recipe for biscuits and spit bath instructions 1-2-3
That links with hot-diggity-dog-dot-com, that is my grandfather
They take you to gruff-ex-cop-on-his-fourth-marriage-dot-dad
He forms an attachment to kind-a-ditsy-but-still-sends-ginger-snatch-for-Christmas-dot-mom who
Downloads the boy in the orchard, the emperor of oranges who grows up to be

Me,
The guy who usually goes too far, so

If I were the emperor of the internet
I guess I’d still be mortal, huh?
But at that point I would probably already have
The lowest possible mortgage and the most enlarged possible penis, so
I would outlaw spam on my first day in office
I wouldn’t need it.
I’d be like some kind of internet genius.
And me,
I’d like to upgrade to deity and maybe
Just like that

(p-o-p)

I’d go wireless.

Huh.

Maybe google would hire this
So I could zip through your servers and firewalls like a virus
Until the worldwideweb is as wise as wild and as organised
As I think a modern day miracle-slash-oracle can get, but
Oooooooooo, you wanna bet just how whack and un-p.c. your Mac or PC’s gonna be when I’m rockin’

hot-shit-hotshot-God-dot-net?

I guess it’s just like life

It’s not a question of if you can
Its, ‘Do ya?’
We can interfere with the interface
We can make you god hallelujah the national anthem of cyberspace every lucky time we logon
You don’t say a prayer
You don’t write a song
You don’t chant an ooooohm

You send one blessed email to
Whoever you’re thinking of
At
Dadeladatatatatatatadadeladedadeladedatatam-dot-com