In the past, people stored knowledge in books. Nowadays, people store knowledge on the internet. Do the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

Because there
were
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nothing like
:
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Drives, Cloud or any storage software in the past,
people
at that time had to
store
their
knowledge
in books to
remain
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retain
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and
to
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pass down
those
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that information
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information
. But in
modern
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day,
come
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along with
the development of technology,
people
now
store
knowledge
on the
internet
and many other software. In my opinion, the advantages of
this
improvement totally outweigh the drawbacks.             
Firstly
,
although
the technology is really modern and developed
but
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errors
and mistakes are still something that can not be totally avoided. The
internet
sometimes has
errors
in its system and because the
internet
is global
so
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those
errors
will annoy every
users
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in any region.
Moreover
, the
users
may lose stored
information
after the
errors
and
this
is quietly uncomfortable. The
internet
also
require
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devices and wifi to get access to, so the
users
have to prepare a few things before using the
internet
. But these disadvantages are not worth considering when we compare them to the benefits.             There is a clear benefit that can be assumed immediately
is
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storing
knowledge
on the
internet
saves more places for the
users
than storing
in
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it in
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books.
While
people
had to write down
many
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information
and had to find
place
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for all of their books in the past, nowadays, with the same amount of
knowledge
,
people
just need one computer or one
mobilephone
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mobile phone
to
store
all that
information
.
Moreover
, the
knowledge
which is stored on the
internet
can be kept longer and more secure than
the
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past ways,
those
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that information
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information
will
last
until the
internet
is broken down (
may be
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maybe
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forever if there are not any problems )
while
the paper can be old and torn through time.
Finally
, because
user
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users
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can
store
information
as a file and
thay
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they
can name that file,
so
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finding the
knowledge
is much easier, faster and more convenient too.             
Overall
, despite having some disadvantages, the
internet
proves that it is the most useful and effective way to
store
knowledge
that we have ever known and it is a big development that we have created.
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There were a few grammatical errors and awkward phrases. For example, 'Because there were nothing like: Drives...' could be more clearly stated as 'Because there were no drives, cloud storage, or any other storage solutions in the past...' Careful proof-reading can help catch and correct these minor issues.
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