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Jessica Krotki Online Communications January 26, 2009 Everyday I am constantly using technology. When I wake up in the morning the first thing I wake up to is my cell phone alarm. Without that type of technology I would never be able to wake up in the morning. Then I go watch music videos on my TV while I am eating breakfast. I have cable on my television. In the morning or late at night are the only times I watch TV because usually I’m out and about. On my way to school every morning I listen to a cd. Without my cd player I wouldn’t be able to do this. Also, it’s nice to press a button for my window to go down instead of using a crank. In school I only use the computer when it’s necessary. For example, in my second period class I like to use the computer to take notes. Last semester I had a yearbook class so I was using the computer everyday to put together our yearbook. During the class I frequently used a camera also. The basis of the class was to go around taking photos of people, uploading them to the computer, and then creating a layout for a page in the yearbook. There wouldn’t be a class if we couldn’t use technology. Using the computer in school is a lot different from using a computer at home. In school many sites are blocked and there is no freedom in where you can surf. In school I barely go on the internet; however, at home I use the computer for things like checking my email, chatting to friend, or simply playing an online game. Technology has really improved over the years making things easier and more interesting for people throughout their everyday lives.

January 29, 2009 In my opinion the web 2.0 is nothing but a new term. I believe that this is just a new fancy word to say world wide web. We have always been able to do things like blog and add information to the internet, it's just that no one fully understood how. Now everyone has the knowledge to update and add their own opinions to the internet, so we think that technology is improving, when it is really just our knowledge. Democratization means that it is very easy to get information onto the web. The downfall of this idea is that not everything is one hundred percent true. The information you are reading on the internet can be false because anyone can go onto the web and put whatever they want on it. It can sometimes be frustrating knowing that you might be reading false information and believe it because you think it came from a reliable site. The new web is helpful in ways like blogging or chatting with friends over a simple website like facebook; however, I believe the new web has more downfalls and is becoming too complicated.

January 30, 2009 The Timex Sinclair 1000 was launched in 1982 and was discontinued in 1983. This computer was in black and white and featured no sound. The Timex Sinclair 1000 has basic language and had shortcuts (like ctrl s to save). The house hold computer created ideas for add-ons such as full size keyboards, memory expansions, disk drives, and sound generators. The Commodore 64 was also released in 1982. The personal computer was very popular and over thirty million were sold. They were sold in retail stores which caused an increase in customers, rather than selling in an electronic store. The computer had 64 kilobytes which was a huge improvement from the Timex Sinclair 1000’s 2 kilobytes. The Commodore 64 also had sound and advanced graphics. Popularized gaming world because there were many games that went with this computer. DOS is an operating system for IBM computers. This program is a single task operating system and cannot be used by more than one program at a time. This system was used to allow development of character-based applications. The DOS helped access additional memory and held more than 640 kilobytes. Pong was the first arcade game released in 1972 to gain popularity in the arcade and at home. It was a coin-operated game that was based on the game of ping pong. Pong was the start of a new revolution. After the game and all of the sequels became popular, more and more Atari games were created. Soon enough we ended up with the newest gaming appliance, the Wii. Prodigy is an online service that was founded in 1984 that allowed the subscribers to access things such as news, weather, banking, and much more. This was considered the door to the World Wide Web. Many general topics could be searched through Prodigy. This online service was the start of all search engines like Yahoo, Google, and Wikipedia. Compuserve was the first major online service that was founded in 1969. This service was used to search the internet and make file exchanges (such as pictures). In 1996 Compuserve introduced long distant phone card and text-to synthesis. This search engine also was a basis for all other online services today. All have improved due to this being the first one. WebTV is a device that allows television to be connected to the internet. Each time a new model was created the computer significantly improved. In the beginning the computer had no sound and black and white poor imaging. Today the computer is very advanced in sound, image, and applications.

February 03, 2009 Out of all the ads that were aired during the superbowl I think the Budlight one was the most effective. It was a very funny commercial and it got the point across that Budlight is good. The other commercials weren't very interesting and didn't provide a clear message to the viewers. In this commercial all the co-workers are discussing how they can save money. Such things as bonuses and marketing being cut were mentioned as ideas. One guy suggested that maybe they should stop buying beer at every meeting and he got thrown out the window. This tells the viewers that the beer is delicious and is worth giving up important things in the company.