Watching Epic 2015 was a very interesting experience for me. It showed a bit of how the internet evolved and then went on to hypothesize how the internet would be like in the year 2015. However, this is the year 2015 and well, nothing that was hypothesized in that clip actually happened. Do note that Epic 2015 was made around 2006, so obviously anything that happens after the year 2006 in that video is made up and was thought to happen as the years went on as the internet got bigger and better.
So Epic 2015 starts at the beginning of the internet which includes the "birth" of TCP/IP or Transmission Control and Internet Protocol. This is the base or foundation of which the internet that we know today resides on. Then goes on to things that we as the common folk know more of like Amazon.com which arose in 1994, Google which arose in 1998, this site that this blog exists on called Blogger which appeared in 1999 and the rise of Gmail in 2004. But after that, actually after 2006 thats when things start to get a little interesting, or more like fictional. The clip goes on to say that Google and Amazon would band together and make something called Goolezon which is yes, both names put together as one if it hasn't been noticed yet.
All in all the fiction of what happens after 2006 in the video and what actually happened after that along with the actual real life events back to the beginning of the internet is very enjoyable and actually gives you some good facts about the beginning of the internet. It also reasonably hypothesizes on what might, but never does, happens on the the year 2015, as Google and Amazon are large powerful companies, it may not come much as a surprise if they do eventually merge together to increase revenue or something.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Web Page Creation
Creating a Web Page is nothing really new to me. But every time I would make one, especially from scratch, and by scratch I mean using a text editor like notepad (or what I use notepad++), my experiences are always different. This particular time, I actually had to dig up a bit of my previous works to get a sense of how some things were laid out again. But before I go a bit into my experience here, I'll talk about how I've come to learn about creating a web page.
So it all started when I was in my Sophomore year in High School and I decided to take a class and it was called "Web Design" and it was there where I learned how to use notepad to pretty much bring a web page to life on the screen. Now as simple and short as this story may seem, I struggled a bit when it came to learning the required tags for an HTML page and where they should or needed to be placed in the text editor. Such tags would include the <style> tag, which can pretty much control how the whole layout of the page will be, the <ul> and <li> tags which allowed you to but things into numbered lists and bullet lists and a couple other tags. I even got to make a website using Adobe Dream Weaver, which is for creating websites. Now a couple years later, during my Senior Year in High School, I took another Web Design class, however this was at Highline Community College, or actually Highline College, since they've recently had that changed. It was here, where I truly went in-depth with the Styles and things like a Wrapper, Sections, and making a menu bar or drop-down menu where you can click on links to go to different web pages. Honestly, it was quite difficult, but when it all came together, it was great.
This time, this experience was fairly easier since I've already had a good amount practice doing this using a text editor, but still was difficult at times especially when I forgot to close tags or put a tag in a spot where it wasn't supposed to be or even using the wrong tag. Nonetheless, making a HTML page in a text editor is still a fun experience whether it is giving you a hard time, and in this case it was a bit since my mind has been a bit foggy in this area a bit, or if you are having a blast creating something that shows up saying that you've created it even if it is not 100% working.
So it all started when I was in my Sophomore year in High School and I decided to take a class and it was called "Web Design" and it was there where I learned how to use notepad to pretty much bring a web page to life on the screen. Now as simple and short as this story may seem, I struggled a bit when it came to learning the required tags for an HTML page and where they should or needed to be placed in the text editor. Such tags would include the <style> tag, which can pretty much control how the whole layout of the page will be, the <ul> and <li> tags which allowed you to but things into numbered lists and bullet lists and a couple other tags. I even got to make a website using Adobe Dream Weaver, which is for creating websites. Now a couple years later, during my Senior Year in High School, I took another Web Design class, however this was at Highline Community College, or actually Highline College, since they've recently had that changed. It was here, where I truly went in-depth with the Styles and things like a Wrapper, Sections, and making a menu bar or drop-down menu where you can click on links to go to different web pages. Honestly, it was quite difficult, but when it all came together, it was great.
This time, this experience was fairly easier since I've already had a good amount practice doing this using a text editor, but still was difficult at times especially when I forgot to close tags or put a tag in a spot where it wasn't supposed to be or even using the wrong tag. Nonetheless, making a HTML page in a text editor is still a fun experience whether it is giving you a hard time, and in this case it was a bit since my mind has been a bit foggy in this area a bit, or if you are having a blast creating something that shows up saying that you've created it even if it is not 100% working.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Postal Service Vs. Email (How are they different and similar?)
There are many questions to what the difference is between the Postal Service and Email. Now the most general answer would be something like "Well, the Postal Service sends Physical mail such as letters, and packages, while email sends similar things, however they are Digital, not Physical". I probably could've worded this in a much more simpler and shorter but, what the heck.
This is true, but there are more in-depth things that make them even more different from one another.
Another question would be, How are they similar to one another? Again, the most general answer would be "They both send mail and you get mail." Now this answer is much simpler and again, most true. Also like the differences, there are more in-depth things that can make them more similar.
Lets start with the differences. Now I will only go through a few so this isn't so lengthy.
First, the most general, Postal Service sends and receives physical mail while e-mail sends and receives digital or electronic mail, as the "e" in e-mail stands for Electronic. Next, The Postal Service have mailmen to deliver your mail to your mailbox. Email however, does not use mailmen, but mail servers and such that receive mail to send to send to the receiver's inbox, or digital mail box in other words. The other difference is that when your internet at home, or where ever you are goes down, the mail that is being sent to you will still arrive in your inbox, even if you can't access it. However, if something were to happen at the postal service or in the event of a disaster, then there is a chance that you won't be getting that mail you were waiting a few days for even if you check that mailbox extensively.
Now to the similarities.
When sending a letter to someone, you really only need to get the address to where the letter is going to correct. That means the name to who you are sending it to doesn't really even matter. It's just there to let the receiver know that it is for that particular person. For Email, you also need to get the Address, or in this case, the Email Address correct to have it go to the person you want to send it too. And like a physical letter, the Name or "Subject" in this case, doesn't matter. However, it does help filter out mail and allow the receiver to find it quickly. Another similarity would be that if you are sending a letter to someone, both digitally and/or physically, it is still a letter. Okay so some people see letters as a physical object, I say some, not all, either handwritten or printed text, such as a resume or a letter from your school. However, the same text is also considered a letter if it is digital too. You know when your typing something and when you are going to send it the send button is like a letter? Well, that might not be the case with some if not most email's now like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, but it is still representing a letter, just digitally. Heck, if you still don't think it is, then just print it out. Boom. Letter.
This is true, but there are more in-depth things that make them even more different from one another.
Another question would be, How are they similar to one another? Again, the most general answer would be "They both send mail and you get mail." Now this answer is much simpler and again, most true. Also like the differences, there are more in-depth things that can make them more similar.
Lets start with the differences. Now I will only go through a few so this isn't so lengthy.
First, the most general, Postal Service sends and receives physical mail while e-mail sends and receives digital or electronic mail, as the "e" in e-mail stands for Electronic. Next, The Postal Service have mailmen to deliver your mail to your mailbox. Email however, does not use mailmen, but mail servers and such that receive mail to send to send to the receiver's inbox, or digital mail box in other words. The other difference is that when your internet at home, or where ever you are goes down, the mail that is being sent to you will still arrive in your inbox, even if you can't access it. However, if something were to happen at the postal service or in the event of a disaster, then there is a chance that you won't be getting that mail you were waiting a few days for even if you check that mailbox extensively.
Now to the similarities.
When sending a letter to someone, you really only need to get the address to where the letter is going to correct. That means the name to who you are sending it to doesn't really even matter. It's just there to let the receiver know that it is for that particular person. For Email, you also need to get the Address, or in this case, the Email Address correct to have it go to the person you want to send it too. And like a physical letter, the Name or "Subject" in this case, doesn't matter. However, it does help filter out mail and allow the receiver to find it quickly. Another similarity would be that if you are sending a letter to someone, both digitally and/or physically, it is still a letter. Okay so some people see letters as a physical object, I say some, not all, either handwritten or printed text, such as a resume or a letter from your school. However, the same text is also considered a letter if it is digital too. You know when your typing something and when you are going to send it the send button is like a letter? Well, that might not be the case with some if not most email's now like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, but it is still representing a letter, just digitally. Heck, if you still don't think it is, then just print it out. Boom. Letter.
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