Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Blog 2
This reading really took me back. I remember being 8-10 years old PRE-World wide web, playing text based games on local billboards... "The Final Frontier" for any old skool nerds out there... Yes Im sure none of you even know what that means, but I watched the internet become what it is through all these avenues that these articles are refering to. Hell back in my day MIRC or IRC was used for nothing but illegal uploading/downloading on a ratio run system (hypothetically). I remember I made so much money in high school because I was the only person who had the know how to get the illegal music and burn it for resale, hypothetically... I remember the day ICQ came out I was "Uh-Ooo"-ing all over the place, I actually still have friends that conduct business on that fossil of a chat proggy... But hey, Romanians... what are you going to do, they haven't caught up with us quite yet... I mean it's not like AIM is hard to find or get, I can link you to a page right now that will give you every version ever created... but anyway... The fears of this article are ridiculous, once again I see nothing to fear other than privacy issues but if you are a normal citizen and not trying to overthrow the government or working with the late Mr. Escobar Id say you will be fine... Allthough I did have one friend, true story, who put up a java pic of a gun shooting at a W sign 5 years ago and within 3 days the secret service was questioning his entire family... We checked his outgoing packets a month later from his house and it was being re-routed to a military base in Florida... but he took care of them... I think the means of communication on the internet are amazing and I think the stronger and stronger bandwidth gets the better it's going to become... Keep using the internet, keep chating away, keep facebooking, keep bloging, and keep buying, because we need the internet... After China buys the entire planet it will be all we have left... :)
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Wow! Wasn't familiar with all that going on. However, I do agree with eliminated the extras that the internet allows to progress daily. If some of the chat rooms, facebooking and blogging is eliminated or broaden, I don't believe it would cause a major problem.
ReplyDeleteif China buys the entire planet you can bet they'll be filtering the internet so we have that to worry about, too. But I'm with you on the fact that for the most part it's privacy that people have to worry about. And, as Mandy says in another post, posting things on the internet that come back and haunt you. The US has along way to go to bring high speed connections to the home that are comparable to a lot of other nations.
ReplyDeleteCall me paranoid...but fear is inevidible when something, such as technology, becomes more powerful than the man that created it. When it becomes so big and so much that it can persuade, provoke and even intrude on you. Is it China we should fear?
ReplyDeleteI agree,I like when you said when China buys up the planet the internet will be the only thing we have left that was cute. But the only thing I have against the social networks his how human beings abuse these networks until the point technology becomes a problem. I saw on a website were socail networks such as twitter and facebook broke up a lot of marriages and happy homes. I guess i'll get married when China takes over because I want stay with my husband foever. lol
ReplyDeleteI can remember the final frontier, but I was a little younger perhaps. I remember getting computers for the first time in our elementary school. On another topic, the privacy fear can be quite scary when you consider technology. They have televisions that can actually sense when someone leaves the room- it subtracts from the actual count of viewers when viewer ratings are being analyzed for a sitcom. Spooky stuff.
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