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Goods and service taxes
With the internet, we can do taxes easier. Taxes are mandatory and were important. Taxes were time-consuming and took a long time to do. The internet significantly changed the way taxes were done. Back then they might not have been open to the concept but now we can see how efficient it is. A Brief History of Canada - 1980 to 1999,
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Weather Tracking
Canadian and the U.S. signed the Canada/U.S. Air Quality Agreement, that required the United States to reduce emissions by 40% of the 1980 levels by 2010. Back then they had to use less convenient machines to find this information. Now in our time, we can use the internet to calculate this information a lot faster and makes you think about how if people back then had the technology we have today. A Brief History of Canada - 1980 to 1999,
www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/can1980.htm. -
First website
The first website was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. That website might look boring to us now, but back then it was revolutionary. This opened a whole world of information that was built upon which made what we are using right now. Shontell, Alyson. “FLASHBACK: This Is What The First-Ever Website Looked Like.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 29 June 2011, www.businessinsider.com/flashback-this-is-what-the-first-website-ever-looked-like-2011-6. -
Development of communication
Using the internet, we have been able to substantially improve the way we communicate. We've come up with more efficient and easier ways, with portable phones, wifi-based calls, and texting. The internet played a key role in the development of all these commuinications. -
Growth of population
In 1991-2002, the population increased substantially. in 1991 the population of Canada was 28.17 million and the population in 2002 was 31.36 million. From this information, you can see that the population grew by 3.19 million.
