As a civilization, the development of language and alphabets allowed us to communicate. After the printing press, a revolution in mass production of media and books advanced our education system and drove literacy rates up. As our accomplishments in technology expanded, the information age was born, and new digital tools accelerated the fields of design and engineering which impels great scientific fascination in its own right. Computer-aided design allows us to build the homes and communities in which we live. Computer graphics enabled us to have a view into computer processes that represent things in the physical world. HCI has provided us with many tools and perspectives for thinking about how we should interact with computers. We've reached the point in our society where the Web is an integral part of many peoples everyday lives. 


Each of these events required adopting a system, or a definitive and agreed upon standard to enable such advancement. Combinations of ideograms progressed into alphabets, which formed from utilizing repeating characters which helped spawn languages. The printing press was built by combining two existing processes used successfully for other means. The Internet and family of technologies as we know it today is a manifestation of a confluence of standards: TCP/IP provided a language for computers to speak. HTML provided a way for documents to speak to one another, and HTTP provided a way for a browser to communicate with a server. Each of these technologies has played a role in providing us the technological infrastructure of computers and systems as we know it today.


The various parts of history in computer science seem to converge on the presumption that utilizing standards for communication systems does indeed have positive consequences for the people utilizing those systems.

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