Sam+SaNogueria

SaNogueira, Samantha Per. 3   1-26-09    During a typical day I use so many types of technology that it is hard to name them all. There are so many things that I use technology for that my parents couldn’t have even dreamed of when they were kids. I begin and end my days with technology. When I wake up in the morning, my alarm on my phone wakes me. It plays a ringtone that I set. Falling asleep, that’s another story, it is usually on the phone, watching TV or listening to music on my phone. Without my phone I would be lost. I use it so many times throughout the day that it is hard to believe I could make it through a day without it. Texting is one thing that I use my phone for that I do not believe I could do without. Texting is my only way to keep in touch with my mom and my friends during the day seeing as I can not usually get away with making a call in class. Another piece of technology I use on a daily basis is my IPOD. Now that I have a phone that I can put music on, I do not use my IPOD as much, but I still use it for the games, pictures, videos, movies, and TV shows that I have on it. The computer for me is usually more for work then fun. I do not have much time to spend just browsing internet sites so when I go online It is either for school work or to check my cheerleading schedule. I used to use my computer to do all sorts of things such as; play games, watch funny videos on youtube, check my myspace, etc. but all that seems a part of the past now. My Camera is something I treasure. It is the one piece of technology that I can capture memories with. I love it for that. I have over five thousand pictures saved, and I love taking them all. I am glad that I live in a generation that has access to all of the technology that we do. Without it I do not know what I would do. It really helps keep me going. I look forward to seeing what scientists can come up with in the future.

I think that Web 2.0 is nothing. It has nothing more to offer then the world wide web and is simply a marketing ploy. It has nothing to do with "democratization" because it itself means nothing. Web 2.0 is wolrd wide web, only made by someone else trying to make money off of it.

Timex Sinclair was significant in the history of computers in that it caused the placement of computers in households. Because the Timex Sinclair was on the market for much cheaper then the rest of the computers, other computer companies had to lower their prices to compete making it much easier for families to own a computer. The Sinclair has been called a “ catalyst that accelerated the placement of computers as a common household and business item” The Commodore 64 was the best selling single personal computer model of all time. It was sold in regular retail stores, not in electronics stores and most of its parts were made “in-house” to control the price. The Commodore 64 is sometimes compared to the Ford Model T for “bringing a new technology to middle-class households via creative mass-production.” DOS was the standard operation system for IBM-compatible personal computers. Although DOS is no longer used, some of the programs we use on modern computers today are based off of DOS programs. It was not known to be very user friendly, but it made a great foundation for the technology that we use now. Pong was a revolutionary game created by Atari circa 1972. It was revolutionary because the game was the first to have real graphics and be able to react to what the person who was playing it was doing. The concept of playing games against a computer was completely new to that generation, and it started a trend, today most video games, though they can be played against other people, are still played against a computer or game console. Prodigy was a network that allowed its users to connect to all different types of things “online” such as, games, polls, news, weather and much more. The company that created it claimed it was the first consumer online service. If that is true, then we have Prodigy to thank for the great advances we have in the consumer online services he have today. All over the U.S. today people buy thing from cloths, to electronics to groceries online. CompuServe was the first major commercial online service in the U.S. It was the leading online service through the 80’s and 90’s. Today CompuServe operates as an online service provider that is owned by AOL. The technologies that allowed people to “surf the web” on their TV screen was known as WebTV. We use WebTV still today to surf the internet and even read on a TV screen. It is now commonly known as MSN TV. It does not serve as a computer, but is a cheap way to have internet connection that not have to have a computer.