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The internet is the biggest library anyone can have in their house, or in their country. It is the miracle of accessing information where you can learn anything and learn how to learn about something you are interested in. Hopefully, you will find just about everything that any normal human being needs to know or where you can get it.

CHANGE THE WORLD

 

 

Cyber Space The Eighth Wonder of the World

Bless the Founders of the Net, the women and men who pioneered this whole thing and changed the world forever!  Yes, it was the Hippies who left us sex, drugs, rock and roll and the internet! What other culture on earth would have? No one. It's a strickly grade A USA creation and it was meant to make the world a better place! At first there were only scientists on the net then came the educators. You might want learn who the early internet pioneers are, or read A LITTLE HISTORY.

Back in 1991 when I started out on the net, before there were websites, before it went commercial, before you could buy anything on it, and way before regular people ever heard of it, I was there. Meet some of the other First Teachers in K12 Education who were the pioneers here on the Educational CyberPlayGround and you can even email them your questions. These folks are known as "netizens", which means a citizen of the net. The internet is the biggest playground in the history of the world because there are no walls, where there should be no boundaries of any kind.

TEACHERS
How do you want to teach?

We learn by imitation. We want to integrate technology into the classroom, so Teachers Must Model what we want future teachers to be able to do in their classrooms. This is a perfect example of ideas and concepts put into present day action.
Watch an Old style Talk and Chalk video lesson now distributed on the net. Then discuss the changes in the medium, storage and delivery differences from 1972 compared to 2007 and how the ideas and concepts discussed in the film came true or not.

WATCH 1972 ARPANET Film about Computer Networks A documentary film about the history of the ARPANET and birth of the Internet. :
The Heralds of Resource Sharing
It's all about moving the information off of the paper, the costs of storing it, the labor costs, and giving people access.The printing press handled the problem of copying information but now the networks handle distributing it.
Also find a list of the speakers and links to some biographical information in the film. [source]
Note the electronic music used for the film - moog .

Speaking parts:

The future of Data summary starts  20:00

Non-speaking:

Suzanne Johnson March 19, 2006
1972 ARPANET Film (was: "an amazing film...")
Without going too far down memory lane, [...snip] I've got to say that amid the "prehistoric technology" in this film is a reference to network management and control, which has, in my opinion, never developed to the same point  since that time.  One possible exception would be the Ricochet network in the mid-nineties.
I was on the system staff at Sumex-Aim (at Stanford) back in the early-seventies.  We were  the first non-defense funded application site on the ARPANET.  One day the system staff were all in the offices which were located several blocks from the machine room containing our computer and  IMP.  We all started getting IMP shut- down messages on our terminals. "IMP going down in 30 minutes for 10 minutes", with a count-down of minutes after that.  We all looked at each other and asked who scheduled the shut down.  None of us had.
Then someone remembered an 800 number we'd been given when we connected to the ARPANET.  It was for a "network control center somewhere back east".  We called the number and asked the person who answered what was going on.  Not expecting a coherent answer, we were surprised when the person made a quick check and told us:  "your IMP has been having intermittent problems for about a week.  It finally was able to make a diagnosis of which board was creating the problem. 
We've scheduled and controlled the downtime and a technician is there waiting to switch boards.  You will be back up again in 10 minutes." By the time we all regained our composure, and sent someone to the machine room, the IMP was fixed and in the process of coming back up. 
We then recalled that as a part of being connected to the ARPANET, we'd had to ensure that access to the IMP was available at all times to ARPANET technicians (we'd given a key to them).
Also see: "From Barnstorming to Boeing - Transforming the Internet  Into a Lifeline Utility" with the notes


STEVE WOZNIAK, the co-inventor of the Apple Computer, still attends rock concerts frequently. THEN: Attending high school in Sunnyvale during the Summer of Love.

 

The Chinese invention of moveable type, is credited to Bi Sheng in the year 1045 AD way before Guttenberg ever printed a bible, and the internet is way way way more impressive in changing the world than moveable type was for it's time.

The First Web Browser was written in 1990 it was the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order to save confusion between the program and the abstract information space (which is now spelled World Wide Web with spaces).

 

The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users. A second billion users will follow in the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs.36% of Internet users are now in Asia and 24% are in Europe. Only 23% of users are in North America, where it all started in 1969 when two computers -- one in Los Angeles, the other in Palo Alto -- were networked together. It took 36 years for the Internet to get its first billion users. The second billion will probably be added by 2015; most of these new users will be in Asia. The third billion will be harder, and might not be reached until 2040. Now, learn a little about something called bandwidth.

11/9/06 In 10 years, the U.S. share of the world's online population reportedly has fallen from 64 percent to less than 25 percent, although U.S. Web surfers evidently visit more pages each.  More than three-fourths of Web visitors to large U.S. Web sites such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo come from overseas. The three companies are among 14 of the top 25 U.S. Web sites that draw more foreign traffic than U.S.-based traffic, according to market research company ComScore Networks.

FIND THE VERY LAST PAGE OF THE INTERNET

Remember one simple fact:
You can travel all over the world in front of a computer screen, but you SEE things and don't FEEL them.  And life is about the sensations.  The world is full of stimuli.  You've just got to leave the screen, leave home, travel and be open to being touched.

Remember one other simple fact:

The Net is a world of ends. You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends. The Internet’s value is founded in its technical architecture.

 

We are all sitting on the cusp between the old physical and new virtual worlds of information. 

Despite all of our high-tech stuff, some basic truths remain unchanged.  Control over the access to information, whether on scrolls, in books, or flashing onto computer screens, is power.  And those persons and organizations who would restrict such access are always the first to realize and manipulate this fact -- to the detriment of society at large.  This has been true all throughout human history, and our fancy machines and networks have not made us immune to the same dark traps.  ~ Lauren Weinstein

INTERNET SECURITY SHOULD BE #1

WE ALL NEED TO KNOW HOW TO PROTECT OUR COMPUTERS

The goal of an attacker is to install a Trojan on your machine that will allow them to control your machine. They turn it into what is called a a Zombie machine - a machine not under your control  NOW YOUR COMPUTER is under their control.
Hundreds of thousands if not millions of machines are "owned" by someone other that the user sitting in front of the keyboard and monitor. These bad people control your PC, grab your passwords, and get lots of machines together to organize DDOS attacks and jump from machine to machine to machine in order to hide their tracks. Trojans are also used to mess with you. You MIGHT actually be using a zombie machine, a vicious cracker be able to surreptitiously turn on your Webcam on your computer if you have one in order to watch you work, or watch what you type on your computer screen and then send you popup messages insulting you.

These Are The Rules  ~ From Internet Rules
"The rules are subject to change, but you are always advised to follow the current set of rules. They are not all of the rules. They are some of the rules. The absence in this list of a particular rule does not mean you don't have to follow it, if indeed it is a rule. These are intended to be a simple set of general rules for dealing with the kinds of interactions that are prevalent on the internet (web/email). Some of them also apply to the telephone. Use of the rules is at your own risk (as is use of the internet).
But you do have to follow these, even if you've lost your rulebook under the stack of AOL CDs. Remember, there are lots of people out there trying to scam you. Don't make it easier for them. These rules derive from the core principles of "don't execute untrusted code" and "verify your contacts"."
Watch the Chain of Trust
Do not ever give out any information to anyone who contacts you first, no matter how inconspicuous it seems. Find an alternate way to find out their contact information (or use contact information you already have, which has been verified), and contact them yourself. For example, if you get a voicemail from your credit card company telling you to contact them about some suspected fraud, don't use the number they leave. Call the number on the back of your card instead.
You don't control the links
If you're going to give out any information - financial info, username / password, etc..., even if it seems like inconspicuous information - do not click on links that are emailed to you. Always type in URLs by hand (or use bookmarks that you saved from typing URLs in by hand).
You don't control attachments
Do not open attachments unless you are expecting the specific attachment and you know what it is. Even then, this is risky. If you're not expecting that specific attachment, it's probably an email worm or something else bad. Even if you are expecting the attachment, rather than clicking on it directly to run it, you're much better off saving it to disk, opening the program you think it should be run with, and then opening it manually. This takes a bit more time, but think of the time you save by not having your data randomly deleted by malicious attachments.
HTML can be used to hide things from you
If you can, use a plaintext mailreader. HTML mail is fraught with all sorts of security problems.
Do not use Microsoft products to browse random websites or read random emails. In a controlled environment, these products do have advantages. When used with untrusted content, they behave badly and will run code without your permission or knowledge. This includes all versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Outlook Express.
Instead, use Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird, Opera, http://www.scroogle.org/
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
And source: http://www.scroogle.org/changes.html
products that are better about executing (or not) untrusted system code - If you absolutely must use Microsoft products, make sure they are up to date with the latest patches.

HOW TO PROTECT THE KIDS

INTERNET SAFETY RULES

"The Court previously took judicial notice that every computer is manufactured with an on/off switch, that parents may utilize, in the end, to control the information which comes into their home via the Internet." ~ Judge Arthur J. Tarnow, in Cyberspace v. Engler

Find the tools that a parent needs to supervise and keep children and teenagers safe on the internet.

Parents need to know where their children are, who they are hanging out with at all times. The internet is the same as mall or anwhere else on earth. Parents are allowed to know where their child is on the internet and what they are doing there. And it's pretty easy to keep them in line, because the alternative for them is to not be permitted to use your machine -- end of story.
House Rules: The bottom line is that your kids do NOT have a right to privacy when it comes to internet or computer use, and you as a parent have a right and a responsibility to see to it that they're not getting into anything they shouldn't be getting into. Take computers out of the bedrooms and put them in the living room or where the parents are. Mobile phones and interactive consoles should also be kept downstairs in case they contain viruses.

Security by Obscurity
People have turnedfrom consumers of the Internet into participants in it—whether they’re publishing websites, or teenagers sharing their cell phone numbers in MySpace. The problem with the super-connected, Web-centered world we live in is that we have made it easier to share information than to share it right. We’ve made it easier to post information on websites than to take it down. We’ve made it easier to open online accounts than to close them. We’ve made it easier to reveal our mother’s maiden names, our elementary schools, our first pets, our favorite color or our childhood street than to keep track of who knows what information and how long it will stay on servers located who knows where. We’ve made it easier to be fast than good and we've lost control of our privacy.

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