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which can come from farm fertilizer, urban runoff — or periodic sewer overflows during big storms.
couldve mentioned hamilton's industrial and working class history, that poses a risk to the environment.
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The city’s public health department warned residents to avoid the harbour’s only beach, at Pier 4, as far back as July 4 after finding evidence of blue-green algae, which can be harmful to the touch. Hamilton Animal Services has also posted warnings to keep dogs and other pets out of water at the harbour beach. (Lake Ontario beaches are separated from the harbour and remain safe,
Connect back to article, statingt the harbor was historically stated as unusable.
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Who is responsible for this? Who is heading up a solution?”
No reference to hamilton's industrial sector, or historical steel and coal industries that flourished during WW2 and greatly contributed to this mess.
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Macassa Bay smells even worse than it looks.
Macassa is the indigenous word for Hamilton Harbor, and the article lacked paying homage to those communities who were displaced previously. Who's land is it? Where is the land acknowlangement?
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A second example concerns network vulnerabilities.Business, science, and government users have a deepconcern for the integrity and privac
The same problem is prevalent for BBS creators. The problem of internets lack of security leaves many unsettled, and allows a series of dangers to be proposed to our nations sovereignty.
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This discourse is baffled bycomplaints of students who say that they graduate without practical competence in their disciplines, without theability to learn new subjects, and with
The expansion of the internet within schools, although remaining positive. Has also negatively affected the way we generate our thoughts. For many students and academics, original thinking is practically unthinkable, as our first mode for understanding concepts is the internet. Leaving many users burdened with others ideas and arguments on concepts, unable to form their own original thoughts.
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High-speed personal workstations becameincreasingly cheap and powerful and are now individualnodes in the networks. Electronic
Computers not only work cohesively with the west industrialization but they also work to fortify it.
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careful examination discerns five major stagthe progress of a technological discourse (my analguided by conversations with Fernando Florespaper by Joel Birnbaum 15]): declarations, prototytools, industries, and widesprea
All of these major stages are driven by humans, and continue by them.
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Although electronic mail was not among the earlygoals of the Arpanet, by 1971 mail accounted for most ofthe traffic, and most users thought of the network as away of communic
The internets advancements, have always had a place in the workplace.
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The Department of Defense was concerned aboutthe ability of US forces to survive a nuclear first strike,and it was obvious that this depended on the durabilityof our communication network. P
Relates back to the synthesis found between the internet and the military (cold war) found in previous readings and videos like Driscoll's and Western's Lecture.
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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Back then, we BBSers were the nerds, the weirdos. Now the whole world is using online services very much like a BBS, and they don't even know it
As mentioned in Driscoll's article, users historical knowledge of the technology used today is lack luster.
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The last day of the original Cave BBS was February 9, 1998. I was in 11th grade, about to turn 17 years old. I remember waking up one morning, checking the BBS, and noticing that a memory leak (which was common with BBS door games) had crashed the BBS again. Instead of resetting it, I decided to just take it offline. I held no ceremony and shed no tears; it just felt like time to hang up the ol' BBS and move on.
The lack of protective measures within BBS, forced people to move on.
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Nukemaster designed many wonderful Cave BBS ANSI art screens that defined the look at feel of The Cave. Callers would view them upon logging on or logging off in particular.
Gave people the ability to connect with others.
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I used the same password on every BBS I called, including my long-distance friend's BBS. As a result, he and his friends had my login credentials to every BBS, and they began logging into them as me and posting mean public messages under my name, and starting arguments with other people. When I discovered that, I was devastated. I tried to defend myself, but it was impossible. My friend and his buddies played with my name and character as if it were a puppet, making fun of me and humiliating me in front of others.
Lack of privacy knowledge when it came to the internet during this time.
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At the time, many BBS users or sysops I talked to were teenagers, mostly high school age. But I soon befriended a local sysop named David Cothran, alias "Bc," who was the sysop of Baxter, one of my favorite BBSes. At 26, he was far more wizened and mature than most sysops I knew. He felt like a full-fledged adult. We even began speaking "voice" (as we called it) on the phone occasionally so he could help me out as I entered various settings, and I remember my mom giving him a verbal screening to make sure he meant well. He really did, and looking back, I consider him a valuable mentor.
A little bit of a dangerous nature.
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Then he just took away my keyboard. After he restored my privileges, I proceeded to do it again—and another $200 phone bill showed up. I called that BBS hundreds of times. Its sysop was my best friend—or so I thought. Page: 1 2 3 4 5 Next →
Similarly to charges within children apps, BBS's nature allowed teens to rack up a bill without full acknowledgement,
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I convinced my parents to sign up for a second telephone line for my BBSing habit (although I called BBSes so much that it may have even been their idea). I do have a small note in my mom's handwriting that the second line would cost $98.15 to install and $16.61 per month after that (about $35 per month today).
Not really cost effective.
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"You can download games for free?" I remember thinking. I noticed one file labeled "RAMPAGE.ZIP" that was one hundred kilobytes—or "100K," as listed. Thinking of Rampage on the NES, which was one of my favorite games at the time, I asked my brother to download it. He declined because it would have taken over five minutes to transfer on our 2400 BPS modem. Any file around one megabyte would take about an hour to download.
Its slow nature, discouraged users ability to make use of all its perks.
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Although BBS-to-BBS message networks were common, each system still felt like its own island culture with a tin-pot dictator (the system operator—or "sysop" for short) who lorded over anyone who visited.
BBS was more personalized.
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Gopher instead adopted the relatively inflexible display of hierarchically structured data.91 That decision had serious ramifications, for it was “pretty text”92—hyper-text—that did more damage to Gopher's standing as a user-friendly information system than did growing pains related to commercialization.
Design infrastructure, was still important for users, especially with the growing competition within its market.
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Yen outlined a three-tier program to offer different Gopher server licenses to institutions of higher education, small businesses, and larger corporations. Licensing took the form of an annual fee based on the size of the firm using Gopher software. All the software would remain free to nonprofits, educational institutions, and individuals. Yen also announced that all software created by Minnesota's Internet Gopher Team before the April meeting would be considered freeware.
Profit and growth, is continuously reinforced by aligning itself aside of institutions.
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Faculty and students at the University of Utah accessed Gopher to get timely reports on avalanche dangers in backpacking country, download the governor's speeches on educational technology, announce the date of the faculty-staff pig roast tailgate party, and post information on the Bellydance Festival.
This sort of snow-ball effect where the implementation of the internet allows a series of changes in safety precautions, everyday research, and humans freedom of mobility.
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Gopher represented one of the first attempts to introduce the power of the Internet to ordinary folk, even if few regular Joes ever used It.38 McCahill on several occasions called Gopher “the first Internet application that my mom and dad could use.”
Ease of use, didn't mean success for the Gopher
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The members of the original Internet Gopher Team at the University of Minnesota—particularly McCahill, Paul Lindner, Farhad Anklesaria, Dave Johnson, Daniel Torrey, and Bob Alberti—presented their Gopher, like their email software, as a way to make navigating an online information space easier.
Unlike the US Militaries need for technology, Academics set out to solve administrative issues, within their education system.
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Web browser users turned the graphics capabilities off so that pages loaded more quickly.
Societies quick and easy mentality, not only shows within the wests love for fast food but also our love for the internet.
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Gopher retrieved data placed on servers connected to the Internet and served as a gateway to other Internet services. Gophers are also burrowing mammals, mirroring the way users tunneled through a vast digital landscape with Internet Gopher.
Organizational Software
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gist.github.com gist.github.com
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Computers will always pull us back from reality towards abstraction, towards simulations. [01:02:01.300 --> 01:02:04.500] That's their whole purpose. [01:02:04.500 --> 01:02:09.980] They'll tempt us to doubting or diminishing the role of chaos and contingency in human [01:02:09.980 --> 01:02:11.780] lives.
A distraction from reality, clouding a clear view of the world?
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His faith in computers and quantitative data was legendary, his famous quote he said to [55:25.380 --> 55:26.380] it. [55:26.380 --> 55:28.180] It might have been Ellsberg that he said this to actually someone was saying that we're [55:28.180 --> 55:31.140] losing the war in Vietnam and he said, where is your data? [55:31.140 --> 55:35.860] Don't get me poetry, give me something I can put in the computer.
Although computers provided nations with the ability to better themselves, negatively this is not the case for many. As the current nature of computers, are heavily used as echo chambers for peoples biases, reinforcing political polarization. This problem is highlighted by Vannevar Bush in As we may think Article.
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Sage lasted until, as I said, until the 1980s, and by finally taking a part in the 1980s, [49:30.620 --> 49:36.660] by which point was so old, the vacuum tubes that had these thousands of vacuum tubes, [49:36.660 --> 49:40.460] the only place the Air Force could get, the only place the vacuum tubes that they needed [49:40.460 --> 49:43.500] were manufactured was the Soviet Union.
Political Conflict currently and historically has affected our ability to development research, due to our inability to internationally trade with certain governments, and regions.
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It's called the Naval Electronic Warfare Simulator.
Sort of similar to AI technologies today.
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In the period we're talking about, from the 1940s through to the 1960s, nobody spent [25:40.100 --> 25:45.900] more money and effort on developing computers than the US military.
How did these technological ventures affect their economy?
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But there's also, between the Mark I and the Apple II, there's a huge shift in thinking [19:50.140 --> 19:56.060] about what the computer was and what the computer was for and how people would interact with [19:56.060 --> 19:59.740] these machines.
Could some of these changes be attributed to changes in political and cultural climates? Considering previous claims made, that the cold war mindset shaped the technological advancements made by researchers.
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The late great historian, Eric Hobbesbaum, said he once wrote, he who says industrial revolution [16:36.900 --> 16:40.980] says cotton, meaning that the history of the industrial revolution and the history of [16:40.980 --> 16:45.940] cotton are so intertwined that if you're talking about one, you're talking about the other.
What's interesting about Hobbesaum claim, can be maid using covid-19/ the pandemic as the cotton. Considering that almost everything that transpired during the pandemic, was highly related to breaks in trade fluctuation and economic growth. Even after the pandemic it is still used as a refence when looking at current economics and politics.
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So we forget and we don't notice, we rarely notice how profoundly our communication and [13:20.780 --> 13:25.860] our information systems, whatever they may be, how profoundly they shape the way we see [13:25.860 --> 13:28.620] the world.
Interesting line, considering the motivation of new legislative bills on media/internet censorship.
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He was actually, I think, borrowing from Winston Churchill who said we shape our buildings [11:19.340 --> 11:21.300] and then our building shape us. [11:21.300 --> 11:24.580] Because I'm talking about video games, I'm just going to adjust that to say we shape [11:24.580 --> 11:27.740] our toys and then our toys shape us. [11:27.740 --> 11:31.580] And both sides of that equation matter.
Relates back to my thoughts posted in Driscoll's article, about how even technological history carries a sort cyclitic nature, on humans behavior's towards new forms of media. How different means of communication reshape the way in which humans communicate, like the evolution of the printing press. Affecting politics, culture, and social relations.
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Recovering the history of the modem world helps us to imagine a world beyond—or perhaps after—commercial social media, mass surveillance, and platform monopolies.
Is there means beyond this type of internet/modem world.
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. Over time, countless social media platforms have reproduced the social and technical innovations of the BBS community.
Even technological history has ways of repeating itself.
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By the start of the 1990s, BBS networks organized around shared identities, cultural interests, and political commitments had become especially vibrant spaces for socializing, organizing, and sharing resources. AfroNet offered wide-ranging discussions of Black interest. GayCom connected BBSs for gay and lesbian people. TGnet was dedicated to transgender identity, health, and culture. AEGIS carried information about living with HIV and AIDS. PeaceNet, EcoNet, and GreenNet supported the peace and environmentalist movements. Of course, we should avoid an overly romantic portrayal of this period. The political potential of BBS technology was also embraced by white power groups, militias, anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, and other right-wing extremists. Some of the earliest coverage of BBSs on television focused on the adoption of BBSs by neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Canada. Misogyny, homophobia, and white supremacy plagued the modem world, just as they do today’s social media platforms.
internet/media allows subcultures/groups to flourish positively and negatively.
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By the end of the decade, the international FidoNet had become a people’s internet, unmatched for its low barriers to entry and global reach.
Advancements in exchanging of information, allows different civilizations the ability to contact one another. Forcing international webs of interconnectedness. Similar, to this form of growth in international webs, is the creation and spread of the printing press.
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Modem owners living in densely settled cities had a broader choice of local BBSs to call than people living in smaller towns did. In metropolitan areas, the concentration of boards encouraged sysops to specialize, resulting in BBSs that served communities of interest within the city.
From the beginning of the internets debut, urban areas consistently surpassed rural areas. Which can also be viewed today, in cities like Toronto and Ottawa in comparison to places like Lambton Shores, or places within the South Bruce peninsula.
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By the end of the year, the Source, based in Northern Virginia, boasted 3,000 customers dialing from 260 US cities. Subscribers paid an hourly rate of $15 during the day and $2.75 at night for access to international news, stock market data, real estate listings, and restaurant reviews
Effectively changing the nature of stock trading, international trade, and the spread of knowledge/news.
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They installed the system at Suess’ place and had it running by early February. Almost immediately, hobbyists from outside Chicago began to call in to check out the system and swap messages with one another, transforming the “computerized” bulletin board into a public forum. Within a few months, CBBS was fielding dozens of calls from around the country, and new bulletin boards had sprouted up in Atlanta and San Francisco.
Technological advances in computerized organizational systems, sparking interest in further places, Allowing the a spread of interconnectedness to be explored by people interested.
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if only we can get our heads out of the Stream for a bit, and build the Garden we need.
We must bridge the gap, between the stream and the garden.
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You look at the pages, and you pull the good ones (Environmental Concerns and Local Subsidies) into your garden. You rewrite some of the bad ones. These ping out from the notifier, and suddenly you can browse for OER across thousands of disconnected sites the way we saw earlier with the Kandinsky example.
Allows better communication across academics, which is very important as knowledge is ever-growing and changing.
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Think about that for a minute — how much time we’ve all spent arguing, promoting our ideas, and how little time we’ve spent contributing to the general pool of knowledge.
Again, as I mentioned earlier, humans will most likely always have this as a problem due to our prideful nature. This is exactly the problem most governments face, as the world becomes more polarized. Distinctions such as being a liberal or conservative in itself cause people to shut others information out, negating any collaborative work.
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The web not as a reconfigurable model of understanding but of sealed shut presentations.
As mentioned earlier, the web can become the epicenter of bias's.
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The web not as a reconfigurable model of understanding but of sealed shut presentations.
As mentioned earlier, the web can become a personalized epicenter for our bias'.
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The pages of people you are friends with get aggregated into a serialized time ordered feed. Your Stream becomes your context and your interface.
Although, this model can be positive in allowing users the ability to communicate and connect online. It also can act negatively, as your social media becomes an epicenter of your own bias's. Which in turn can create close-minded people, who become unwilling to see the other side.
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Humanity can advance, not through argument by through a true collaboration.
The real question here, is whether humans have the ability to put their pride aside (their own beliefs) and work collaboratively.
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the way in which we collaborate on the web, and the way in which it is currently very badly out of balance..
As I referenced previously, technology like this offers a resurrection in true academia, as for many people the ability to see beyond their bias is impossible due to social media's nature. Social media has been detrimental for many aspects of academia, as it only reinforces peoples bias's due social medias algorithm's that work to confirm your bias and keep you engaged. Which ultimately leads to confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance in many cases.
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Together these things have meaning far more subtle and rich than one could get from a post or paper, a knowledge keeps its fluidity and continues to generate new insights.
This statement refers to true academia, as true academics understand that we must come together with opposing opinions, to improve the conclusion. Rather than impose our conclusions onto others.
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I would have thrown the link to Twitter with a damning summary of the study, and everyone would have known I was a good liberal
This statement brings up the larger issue of performative activism. Throughout the pandemic this form of activism grew exponentially, as many people were locked up in their homes.
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