Each One Teach One Reaction: Ballpoint Pen & Netflix

 Ballpoint Pen

    While watching everyone's Each One Teach One presentation I definitely learned a lot of new things that I didn't know before and how they affect us in our everyday. One project that I found interesting that wasn't technology based was Tyler Corrine Wise's project, the history of the ballpoint point. When explaining to us the history of the invention, she mentioned that the idea started in the nineteenth century with the struggle that people didn't like that it took forever for their ink to dry when they wrote with quills. This inspired John L. Loud to create the ball and socket pen, which people found a lot more useful than writing with quills or other calligraphy tools. 

    A few decades Lazlo Biro and his brother took inspiration from John L. Loud's creation of the ball and socket pen and created the ballpoint pen in 1931. Although today most people prefer typing over writing, that hasn't stopped companies from selling and creating more pens. An example of this is in the popular pen company Bic sold over 100,000 pens in 2006 alone. Pens have come a long way from just being something we write and sign documents with, but are now a well-known and useful tool for everyday use.

Netflix 

    Another Each One Teach One presentation that I found very interesting was the history of Netflix by Grace Savoca. Netflix is something that everyone almost has in their household and I found it enthralling to discover the story behind it. The company was originally by Marc Randolph in Reed Hastings in the 90s and became a competitive company for Blockbuster, a video rental company that was very popular in the 80s and 90s. Netflix started competing with them by starting to rent out DVDs by mail without any late fees. Which was one of the many cons of shopping at Blockbuster. However, Netflix started to take off when it created its streaming service online in the early 2000s. They started streaming popular shows that people could watch whenever they wanted to. As well as they have created some of their own original movies and TV shows as well.

    However, this has led to some negative repercussions in the past decade. Although it is nice that we can watch our favorite shows whenever we desire, it can also lead to binge-watching. Binge-watching is when you have an overload of show options to watch and you watch a lot in a short amount of time. Allow this is a negative effect on Netflix it still remains one of the biggest companies in the world and will still most likely hold that title in the decades to come.