Generational Gap is it narrowing?

Hello, my name is Dr. Sven Hasafeffer. I'd like to know if the package from Amazon arrived? It was actually addressed to Kathy Winkler, however I was told Jennifer got it by mistake, oops. We missed a drone delivery by just 1 house not bad. It says Safety Matters Inc Auburn Washington 98002. She confirmed with me she had it. She probably lost it or left it at Hannah's and Jeremy's house last night. Oh, well that's not important, I'll just ship you the envelope, again. There it should be on the porch, now. After the test is over. I included a catalog from Sears and Roebuck circa1900, please use it to compare prices in the frugal shopper bonus section.
1. What is your name, age and grade level?
2. Who are your parents?
3. What year were your parents born?
4. How much money did it take for them to support their family for one year?
5. How much money do your parents make in 1 year today?
6. Which came first television or the internet?
7. Where's it funner to play inside or outside?
8. What's the difference between rural or the city?
9. How do you get your news about the world?
10. Did you have fun doing this project?

Parents please make sure you watch the video before you include the younger kids, because some of the cartoons are shall I say slightly, um, older. Well, you decide which cartoons to use and I apologize, if any of the materials offended anyone. That was not our intention at all. Please enjoy the experiment. If you can have Kathy Winkler or Jennifer Richards to send it back tomorrow or schedule a drone pickup.

Thank You

Steve Carpenter

Dot.com or dot.bomb?

Actually pretty amazing how the.com phenomenon started your story about the Tulips going viral and getting worth $375 per bulb, that's just insane to me. I mean you can go up into tulip country in the spring and buy some pretty expensive bulbs, but not anywhere near that kind of money. The dot-com craze created several millionaires, for example, Maria Cantwell who made her money from Real Audio, then became a senator. Mark Cuban became a billionaire mostly because of dot-com ventures, most notably when he sold his company broadcast to Yahoo for 5.7 billion dollars.

Your demonstration with the dinosaurs representing the early internet companies, such as Prodigy, CompuServe, Genie, AOL and Delphi was entertaining to say the least and very informative. To think that prodigy was bringing in sixty six million dollars a month just giving people access to the internet that blows me away. The fact that infospace a glorified phone book for people and businesses was trading on the stock market higher than Boeing and worth more than Boeing that's amazing and scary at the same time.

In 2001 several smaller companies declared bankruptcy, for example, Exodus Communications, Freezone, and Luminant Worldwide, just to name a few. A great deal of stocks went down and many CEOs were laid off. 2002 Amazon posted it's first profit, eBay was successful and AOL bought Time Warner in a reverse purchase, because AOL was actually a smaller company then Time Warner at the time. In 2005, sites like Myspace and Friendster start up and Google goes public. They also acquire YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars and Microsoft bought 1.6% of Facebook.

Cyber security group presentation

I thought it was very interesting to learn that a guy by the name of Robert T Morris released the first worm on Arpanet in 1988. That's the year I graduated high school I didn't think there were already threats towards cybersecurity. The Melissa and I love you virus attacks I remember those when they happened, but I was not affected by them. Cybersecurity being a seventy-five billion dollar a year Market does not surprise me. In fact that number seems low to me.

James Johnston with a T, sorry I thought that was funny the way he said that at the beginning of his part of the presentation. I had no idea that webcams were that vulnerable, even though I had heard on the news about baby monitor cameras being hacked. I just assumed that webcams in like computer monitors and laptops have better security than a baby monitor camera. I guess it's time to tape up my computer screens camera. His personal story about the external hard drives packed with C4 explosives and ball bearings and  able to be detonated just by being plugged into a computer. That's beyond scary it's amazing to me what criminals or terrorists will do to hurt other people or their enemies.

Ashton Terry talked about the department of defense's cybersecurity and how each branch of the military has their own different system for cybersecurity. The best way to stay ahead of the enemy is by keeping your software up to date, restricting leaked information and monitoring anomalies in the system. Terrorists in foreign countries are trying to use cyber warfare and espionage by gaining access to our networks thousands of times a day.

What jobs were lost because of the internet?

Several industries workforces were affected by the internet including bank tellers, stock brokers and travel agents, just to name a few. So many people began banking over the internet and booking vacations online through sites like Expedia, which forced many small travel agencies to close their doors. It was so much more convenient to just go online and choose your destination and book your flight from airline websites, such as, Deltaairlines.com and choose your hotel off of sites like hotels.com. Destinations such as Disneyland had their own websites and you could plan your whole vacation with them, especially if you were planning on staying in there hotels.

People began banking online, because it was so much simpler then having to go to the branch during Bankers hours. You were still able to conduct transactions, even on holidays when banks are closed. ATM machines in parking lots of grocery stores replaced bank branches. Other businesses like tax preparers and stockbrokers closed many small offices, when websites like H&R Block and TurboTax went online.

Another industry that was hit hard was publishing newspapers, magazines and books. People were able to just get the publications online or read the information off of a news website like MSN or Yahoo. You didn't have to go to the store and buy the magazine anymore it was available online. Libraries started delivering books instead of people coming to the actual library and checking the books out, they just went on their local libraries website and had them sent to their house. As email gained popularity the Postal Service lost millions and laid off thousands of letter carriers and sorters. I don't believe the post office has recovered yet, I think they're still losing tons of money every year.

Security, manufacturing and education also saw some reduction in their workforces.

Guest Speaker Eric Hanberg.

Eric Hanberg presentation was thorough and very informative and he was elected to the position of park commissioner in 2011 for Tacoma Parks. He worked at the University of Minnesota in the career center where he convinced them to allow him to build a website for them. Eric feels that the internet has unlimited potential and that everyone has a history on it. He started a website named exit133.com and is currently co-owner of Side x Side creative a marketing and design company that him and his wife Mary run, which specializes in helping nonprofits with advertising and graphic design.

He has written three books for nonprofits, which the first one titled The Little Book of Gold was published in 2009. He has written several other novels some titles are The Saints Go Dying, The Lead Cloak and The Iron Harvest, which make up The Lattice Trilogy. I'm kind of confused though, because two books don't make up a trilogy. I'm guessing the third book is going to be written, soon. I can get The Lead Cloak on Amazon for free and it sounds very interesting. I look forward to reading it.

Joel Smith's database presentation

Joel Smith's presentation on databases was very informative and he explained it in ways that were easily understandable. When I first got my degree in computer science at Renton Technical College, learning Access was the most difficult program in Microsoft Office. It used to be a lot like writing code there was a lot of steps to get a small database started. The way that Joel explained it looked much easier or they have changed the methods you use to create a database.
The photo of the building whose windows made up a barcode was quite cool I would like to see that in person. I also thought it was really cool the way some companies are incorporating their barcode into their logo. It blew me away also the number of products that the average grocery store has in it now I have a friend that owns a mom-and-pop grocery store down the street from my house and I plan to ask him how many items he has in his inventory, because it's a half the size of a Safeway.
I'm old enough to remember grocery store lines when they didn't have scanners and I can't imagine all the produce codes and other prices in things the checkers would have to memorize before the invention of the barcode scanners. When my son was eight or nine he got a toy that you could scan barcodes and it gave you a little weapon or monster. Needless to say it didn't work very well and he lost interest with it quickly I think it's in the junk drawer in my man cave I'm going to bring it to class wednesday, if I can find it.

Building and HTML web page I'm struggling

Building a web page with HTML is a lot like programming with Cobalt or C++, which I learned during my two year Computer Science degree from Renton Technical College. Writing code was a concept that I struggled with at first, however I figured it out as we went a long with the help of my fellow students and my instructors. Computer networking was half of the cirriculum of the two year program and I knew it was the field I planned to pursue. Towards the end of the second year I was carrying a 4.0 grade point average and the programming instructor attempted to fail me because my internship was with a networking company. The networking instructor stopped him and said half this program is networking, so how can you possibly fail him if that's the career path he wants to pursue.
Databases written with Microsoft Access are very similar to programming in my opinion. They are extremely useful to the point of vital, if a company has a huge inventory and they revolution eyes tracking shipments. It was the hardest part of learning Microsoft Office back when I was earning my computer science degree. I've always been a left brain kind of guy more creative and not analytical, that's my dad, you and him would get along, Andrew.

I think I figured out HTML, but my title doesn't show up on the webpage.

This is my HTML address: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Steve/My%20Documents/ruralvscity.html