{"id":26157,"date":"2016-03-09T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=26157"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:48:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T11:48:27","slug":"things-killed-by-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/things-killed-by-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Things The Internet Killed [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet has been a major game-changer. It changed the way we communicate, the way we share information, the way we act under the blanket of anonymity, amongst other things<\/a>. The Internet also helped kill many things.<\/p>\n

As this infographic from Broadbandwhenever<\/strong> will show, the Internet was a serial killer of random targets. At a personal level, the Internet killed our concentration, memory and free time,<\/strong> but on a more widescale level: music stores and handwritten letters<\/strong> (or perhaps those were just waiting to happen anyways). Here are a few more things the Internet made disappear.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think they missed the chopped up state<\/a> of languages these days (spare an acronym, anyone?), the way we game in solitude, copyrights and our privacy<\/a>. But I\u2019m interested in what you think is the Internet\u2019s latest casualty. Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

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Read more: <\/strong>5 Epic Ways We Misuse Mobile Technology<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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