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David Gatter Online communication Introductory essay

Technology plays a big part of my life and I use if for various purposes every day. I need to use technology every day for school work and for fun. Without technology I wouldn’t be able to stay in touch with my friends as well, my main hobbies wouldn’t be possible, my class work wouldn’t be as good, and I wouldn’t listen to music as often. I use technology in school a lot. My English class is with Mr. Turtola, therefore I spend a lot of time using the computer for school work, along with my robotics class where I had to use technology every day to learn and work on my robot. Most of my school projects either use me gathering information or printing things out. I play video games a lot and use technology in almost everything I do. Technology has a big impact on my life because for fun I will play video games, or even get information for the things I do offline, such as play drums. Technology can be very helpful as there are lessons online as well as being able to watch DVD’s that teach you to be a better drummer or for fun such as watching a DVD about The Who. Nobody calls me by my house number because I never pick up, if people need to get in contact with me they can call my cell phone and get in contact with me immediately. A lot of people send me information about parties and other things online through Facebook or similar websites. Technology is vital in staying in touch. Musically, I will listen to the radio in the car or when I am sitting around the house. If I need to go out I will always grab my iPod before I leave. I love music and technology makes it easy for me to listen to my music no matter where I am.

WEB 2.0 is a marketing term to talk about the new trend in websites. After the crash websites became much more userfriendly and democratic since people can now edit more webpages. Web designers have been making websites that you can edit, become a member of, or even create applications using that websites code. If there is a need for it people make an application out of it for others to use. This fart affects me in many ways such as wikipedia. I get random information off of wikipedia which is user created, without people editing it there would be no wikipedia. Also when I play World of Warcraft I use an application called curse, which is a house for game applications for various tasks that users have created. It has hundreds of user created content for the game, based on things the game needs. My internet experience would be very different without the supposed Web 2.0 since I post a lot of things on websites and use a lot of user created applications which make my computer/website experience easier and more fun.

__Timex Sinclair 1000__ The Timex Sinclair 1000 was the first home computer for under $100. This meant that it was affordable and could be bought relatively easily. One revolutionary thing about this computer was the fact that it had shortcut keys, much like we have today, control P prints on todays computers and on this computers shift + p would print. This made it easier and quicker to get certain tasks done.

__Commodore 64__ The commodore 64 was incredibly cheap for such a high quality computer (at the time). It featured great graphics and sound, while supporting the memory needed for use with these. It was a great computer and much loved by everybody, most importantly gamers. This was when video games thrived on computers and opeded up the doors for computer games.

__DOS__ DOS is short for disk operating unit, and is the screen with all of the commands in old computers. It was a base for almost all operating systems for several decades, since it was the best way for them to run. It was important because almost all computers before 2000 were based at least partially on DOS to run them, so without DOS your computer would have been nothing.

__Pong__ Pong was incredibly revolutionary because, while it wasnt the first computer based game, it was the first good one. It changed the game industry which had been very based on slightly electronic games, (pinball to name one), but not fully computer based games. Pong was almost everywhere and also eventually made the home version of it, the very early home video games was now here.

__Prodigy__ Prodigy was revolutionary because it allowed people to acess a lot of services using their computer. It was even more revolutionary however because of the email and message boards, Prodigy was one of the reasons that those ideas really took off. All of their services were quite cheap because they had POP so users only had to make local calls which would cost them nothing, so it was quite popular. Prodigy really made the email and instant messaging take off.

__CompuServe__ Compuserve was the first major online service. It also was the pioneer of email and message boards, although prodigy made them so popular. Compuserve was the main basis of many internet services today.

__WebTV__ It was a product that allowed your TV to connect to the internet.

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I believe that this advertisment because the song caught my attention when I was watching the superbowl, so I believe it caught many other people's attention as well. It was also very humorous and fun, while still making the point. Many ads were funny but had nothing to do with their product and were poorly done, while this ad came back to the point at the end and drove home the fact that no car is anything without tires. Bridgestone was effective in this advertisment by grabbing attention, being funny, and relating it to the product.