The combination of the computer and the Internet has definitely changed the way in which we receive and create writing in many ways. However perhaps the greatest way that this combination has changed writing is the speed in which it can be distributed. Thanks to the Internet we can post a piece of writing and it will be available for viewing in only a matter of seconds by an enormous audience. In the case of printed or handwritten writing you only have one copy of the work and must find a way to distribute it to a large audience and then have it shipped out, a process that may take days, or months just to distribute the material. However with the Internet I can upload this post tonight and my mother, who is around three hundred miles away, can read it a few seconds later. Distribution of the written piece is not the only thing that the Internet speeds up however. Although things such as letters to the editor have existed for some time comments and criticism have never been able to be viewed so quickly as they are by using the Internet. The Internet allows for comments to be put up almost instantly. The speed of the Internet is a great improvement over the speed of printed text, allowing for ideas to be distributed faster, and for feedback to be received faster.
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