Communication

Communication is something I generally take for granted. I have never known days without a organized language. I have always taken having a standardized language for granted. Growing up as a child it had never occurred to me that a country would have multiple languages I figured they all had 1 language. Now I realize this is not the case. India for example once had many different dialects spoken in almost all different regions. Communication between different areas for the most part did not exist until the merchants developed a standard trade language. The merchants needed a standard language in order to conduct trade amongst different villages. The need for standardizing languages dates back for centuries and now is the foundation of today's information era.

Computer programmers much like the merchants in India realized a huge need for standardizing their programming language. IBM for example made had made a few different computer models that all ran on different operating systems. These operating systems were all written with different computer languages. This made it impossible for the computers to exchange information. Programmers knew that there was a need for these machines to work together in order to increase the work load and make upgrading the systems a more reasonable option. This is not much different that needing a standard language for people to communicate and increase their workload and this can in a sense upgrade your life by making you more money.

The need for language standardization dates back for centuries and continues to play a roll in society today. Initially it was as a means to survive and trade and now has become the foundation of technical advancement. I knew end user computing would give me a basic concept of how a computer works and the foundation of its history, but I never realized it went this deep. I don't think I would have considered the development of a society, and technology to be so strongly based around standardizing languages .