Identity on the Internet :: Technology Computers

Identity on the InternetBefore the internet, there was and the computer, large ones that take up a whole room. The computer then was seen only as a tool, and then a few years subsequently there was the personalized computer which made it more accessible and more interactive. The PC was a kind of evolutionary step which enabled us to wee-wee wider relationships. But these relationships did not appear yet until PCs started to become interconnected. This is where internet comes in. At first it was only a military tool, used by the States to connect their military branches and good share their data. That was until someone saw the commercial value and the great electric potential of the net. In the article of Sherry Turkle, she described a peeled world where we have started to populate over the years with some(prenominal) mirrors of ourselves. The cyberspace is exactly that eerie new world people have inhabited with the help of engineering science like the personal computer. Wit h our lives now inside the screen and our personal selves cannot be determined by the other end then the internet, we gain the capacity to recreate ourselves virtually in the new world. We now have the aptitude to create characters will may or may not reverberate our own identity. With mess up or multi user domains the characters we play can all the same have emotions that can be conveyed to a large number of other players residing in the cyber world. Through the interactions we have with players around the world, our real life personas, Turkle pointed out, go to sleep and our characters materialize inside the virtual domain. Players often border surrounded by real life (RL), a term coined by several MUD enthusiast and their cyber worlds and as a result there are several analogies that will work for this topic. Lets take Play by Email (PBeM) as an example this will be discussed further later on. The author is the player in cyber world and the interaction in the gritty is in the form of writing and the computer is the converter of simple spoken language into the characters actions, thoughts and feelings. Anonymity is a window to a new character. The internet also gives a person a chance to explore his other desires. He may be a man in RL but plays a woman in the game. She maybe a lawyer but plays a bartender.