At first, I had no idea what Tom Friedman was talking about when he said the world is flat, but after his brief explanation it make a lot of sense to me.  Friedman got into one of his chapter which was called the “Ten days that flattened the world”. And he went through each of them an explained how each one helped to make an individual person more connected with nearly everything and everyone in the world.  His second explanation was of the day that Netscape released publicly. Netscape was the first internet browser to be released to the public and it forever changed the way the average person uses the internet. As we learned earlier in class, an internet browser is an application in which information can be retrieved and transferred over the World Wide Web.  This allowed people to be more interconnected to each other like they were never able to before; the average person could now surf the internet in virtually the easiest way possible.  This suddenly took down the barrier of distance, and basically made the world become next door neighbors as Tom Friedman said.  Netscape abilities allowed for the creation of all the .com websites.  For me I feel like this is one of if not the most important flattener because internet browsing is one of the most basic important functions of the modern computer. Netscape is the reason why face book and other extremely popular social websites are able to be so successful. People are now instantly connected to each other regardless of distance. And for me, it allows me to watch YouTube videos, because people can so easily transfer  and access media (such as videos) via websites.