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Lawrence Wenthen Period 3 Online Communications Technology Essay I use the computers at school sometimes, when I have to finish an essay that I put up on a website in school, or if I had to print out a news article for Rollins’ class last semester, but that’s all I used the school computers for. I constantly use my computer at home. I got it for my birthday a couple of months after my it came up in February, and I use it constantly to do everything for school, and I also use it to play video games like Halo and different kinds of flight simulators, because I have a flight joystick. I don’t really use my cell phone at all. I’ve sent 3 texts total. I use about 25 minutes a month because my parents force me to call them when I get home, and I usually use the landline for that. I use the landline for every other call I make because it’s free. As far as TV, I have U-verse, and I record movies a lot. I’ve only rented movies from U-verse a couple of times when I hadn’t seen the movie in a while and my parents didn’t fell like going to Blockbuster. I have an Xbox 360, and I use it all the time playing Call of Duty: World at War, Tom Clancy’s EndWar, and Gears of War 2. I used to have a Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, but not anymore. I have an iPod Nano, the new one that’s really small but plays videos. I have a bunch of movies on it, and a bunch of games as well. I very rarely use a radio, even though I have a good stereo system. I don’t use DVD’s that often, even though I will watch a bunch of episodes of Family Guy on my portable DVD player. I have a digital camera that I always use on vacations, and then I will make a slideshow movie with the pictures. I also have a video camera, but it’s old because it uses tapes instead of mini DVD’s. In school, I have taken Robotics, Photography, and Music Tech. I intend on taking the next robotics course next year. I am also in the Robotics Club because I want to go into the robotics engineering field as a career. I believe that Web 2.0 is basically being able to do what everybody does on a computer: Write whatever you want to write, be able to research information about it, and share it with other people. That's what I use it for. I use it to research projects, write essays on it, and then publish it if required. When it talks about "democratization" in the article about Web 2.0, it means that you are able to share your own opinion with the rest of the world, and you can share it on whatever website you want. People were wondering if there was a Web 1.0 because there is a Web 2.0. People don't think that it is any different than what it was before the famous Web crash in 2000. I think it is the same as well because people were still writing whatever they wanted to write on the Internet before the crash, so I don't really think that the Web has changed all that much. The Timex Sinclair 1000 was the cheapest home computer during it's realease in 1982. It used a system of one-letter keywords for most of it's commands. However, it was only used for basic programming training because it only had a 2KB internal memory. However, the production of this computer spawned a chain reaction of thrid party products to decrease the limitations of the computer. These products include full-size keybords, speech synthesizers, sound generators, disk drives, and memory expansions (up to 64K). This home computer was one of the first computers that helped to make them better. Also produced in 1982 was the Commodore 64, which was the most popular home computer during that time. It sold 2 million units in 1 year. It had 64 kilobytes of RAM memory. The readon why it was so good was because it was sold in retail stores instead of in electronics stores, and Commodore produced many of its parts in-house to control supplies and cost. Another important part of computer technology was the creation of DOS, short for Disk Operating System. These were several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if you include the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, 98, and Me. It was basically the best operating system before these Windows operating systems were created. Pong was not the first ever video game, but it was the first video game that was extremely popular in both arcade and home video game consoles. The game was named after the sound that the console made when the ball was hit in the game. Pong was believed to be the main video game that sparked the "boom" of the video game industry. It was believed that Pong was a copyright infringement on Computer Space, the first video game ever created, but Pong ended up being superior because of the gameplay. There was simply much more to Pong than Computer Space, so Pong became successful. Prodigy and Compuserve were basically the same thing. They were both online services which offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features. However, Prodigy was a little better than Compuserve because Prodigy used a graphical use interface rather than the command line interface used by Compuserve. Both of these things were significant to the history of computer technology because it allowed people to have access to all of these things over a basic dial up connection, which allowed for an increase in this kind of technology. WebTV basically refers to MSN TV, which was an Internet service that used a television instead of a computer. It actually is a very good idea because there are some older people that don't want to have to buy a new computer, and most of them don't use any features other than the e-mail, so why not make a service that is used simply to check your e-mail. You can also send an e-mail because the package comes with a keyboard. I think this is important to the history of computer technology because it allows for more options with the Internet. Also, the fact that this is not limited to just other people with the same service, and they can send an e-mail to other people on computers is great. I believe that the Career Builder advertisement during the Superbowl was the most effective one. I thought it was the best one because I thought it was the funniest one (mainly because of the koala that gets punched) but also because it did a good job of creating the message. All of these people that hate their jobs for all of these reasons, no matter how ridiculous they might be, need somewhere to start looking for another job. If I were in that situation, I would definitely go on Career Builder, just because of that commercial. I think that anybody that creates an advertisement as good as this one, can still get a point across, make their product look good, and have people dying laughing on the floor at the same time definitely deserves a visit on the site.

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