Keeping Up

That's the challenge, isn't it? In this video, the statistics are mind-blowing (especially the idea that we'll have computers in blood cells in twenty years). When I think about the changes that have happened in the span of twenty years, it leaves me breathless. Yet my students, who have arrived in this world-already-created, are, of course, oblivious. Their bemusement at my "gee, wow!" of it all will likely give way to their own amazement twenty years hence, don't you think?

Birthdays

It's celebration time for the internet. On September 24, 1979, the bare-bones version of CompuServe was launched. Here's an early ad:

And if that doesn't completely crack you up by the "gee-whiz" of it all, this will:

Doesn't it seem like there's ALWAYS been the internet? As someone who can remember life pre-internet (even pre-TV!), anniversaries like this stop me in my tracks to take a look back and try to remember what it was like to not have every bit and byte of information at my fingertips.

Today, Google celebrates its 11th birthday (cute logo!) and as a lover of all things Google (who better to take over the world?), I'm again stunned to remember that there hasn't always been Google--and that it's only 11 years old!!!!! Really, what did we do before all of this?????

So, Happy Birthday, Internet! Can't wait to see what you bring in 11 more years.