oh yeah, I'm Asian

There is no better hype machine than the war machine.

Not this one

The thought of impending doom and the loss of thousands of lives is a spooky thing but it's also very interesting. Cue the latest news from East Asia as "tensions mount" between North and South Korea. One side has a basketball obsessed dictator with nukes idly resting on his lap and the other has terrible music, women disguised as boy bands, and a people with a Hajj-esque mission to learn English from a 3rd World country. It's a battle between face-melting nuclear weaponry and cultural corruption. Verdict: stalemate.

What surprises me is how close we actually are to this action. Geographically we aren't as far to these at-horn nations as we perceive ourselves to be. We are culturally distant from our neighbors but the cold, hard fact is we're still Asian and we are "related" to Japan, Korea and Singapore as we are related to our weird second cousins. Even if we aren't that close, their achievements still tickle a sense of envy in us. Seeing then how our Asian neighbors have risen from the stereotypical notion that our continent produces nothing but rice-and-noodle loving degenerates begs the question: What happened to us? 

Just ten years ago we had faster Internet capabilities than Japan. Okay. Right now, a Japanese boy just downloaded a movie in a minute and a half while a Filipino dad is on the phone talking to a PLDT representative complaining about his intermittent 1Mbps connection.The gulf in available technology is vast- it's ridiculous but not incredible. Our country is plagued by so many problems that any dream of advancement is hampered and eventually brought to stagnation. I have no hope left for this place. Unless, of course, people would be willing to give up some of their freedom for the sake of the country (which will never happen because people are selfish and they believe that their freedom is a right).

What Martin Luther King Jr Said

At the end of this entry, you will know what Martin Luther King Jr. said. But as of now, you will get to know what I'll say.

I never knew that in fact, about 15 years ago, the Philippines once had the utmost potential in Internet technology. When this fact came to light last week during class, I want to cry over spilled milk. Sayang. Like a girl who thinks of The One Who Got Away, Thoughts of the what-could-have-beens raced through my head. Imagine if we have what Japan have now (with regards to Internet).

All those possibilities.

All those opportunities.

Snap back to reality! There's no use crying over spilled milk. Thinking of the what-could-have-beens without any action is rather useless now. I think if we think that we can still rise from our downfall. It's not like the end of the world for us. We can rise again. We just need to be back in the game. We can be like Japan before it became an internet roaring giant. Japan started slow. What difference is that to the "slowing" of the Philippines? I mean if we work on the technological developments here in the country, I would not be surprised if we would be really successful. Imagine watching the other countries talking about us and looking at us as if we were a resurrected Phoenix.

All hope is not lost! We still have the potential. I think we have more potential now that we ever had in the past. All we need is that tipping point in Internet development. I read about Japan's pitfalls. One is language barrier. Filipinos can work around that! I mean, we know English and the number of people using the Internet is growing.

It's never too late! I hope I get to witness this rise in my lifetime. Just like what Martin Luther King Jr. said, We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The End Marks The Beginning Of Something (Better).

by Chryl Martinez

I was born on February 17, 1990. Unfortunately, I can’t find anything related to the internet on the exact date of my birth. But I did find a lot of interesting events that happened on the same month and year.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was tasked by the government to do research and improve on defense-related fields. One of the advancements made was the creation of an “intergalactic network of computers and people.” The ARPAnet started as a military experiment funded by the government. But later on its potential as a communication tool was recognized.
Then came a time when the ARPAnet can no longer cope up with fast-growing internet. ARPAnet users encountered several problems like difficulty to connect, expensive cost for set-up, unauthorized users, etc. So on February 1990, the ARPAnet was terminated. But the end of something marks the beginning of another thing. Although the ARPAnet has ended, it signified the beginning of the NSFnet.
Like radio, it can be said that the interconnectivity of computers also started from the military. The initial objective was to use the technology for defense, then for communication. Now, we call these technologies as mass media and we use it not only for communication but for entertainment as well. Come to think of it, at first only soldiers who has gone through rigid training can use these technologies but now almost everyone has access to the internet. Even children knows how to surf the net. Another thought, these technologies were made by the military to help them protect or defend what it is that they wanted to protect. But now it seems like it's the same technology that is becoming their enemy. It is because the internet can now be used to spy on the government and the military. It is like the internet has become a "tool
for transparency."

P.S.
Aside from the arrival of the NSFnet, I’ve also learned that Pegasus Mail “has been made available as a free service to the internet since February 1990.”
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was also released on February 1990. This marked a history for the digital imaging world. We can see the immense influence of Adobe Photoshop through the processed digital images rampant on the internet.

References:
http://www.randomhistory.com/2009/01/12_internet.html
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet_history90s.htm
http://www.pmail.com/history.htm
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/compsoft/soft1990.htm
http://photoshopnews.com/2008/02/19/most-important-date-in-digital-imaging-history/
http://www.answers.com/topic/adobe-photoshop#ixzz161nGfpoV

Me and the Dot-Com Bubble- April 1992.

            The birth of the Internet in the Philippines was on the year 1990- 1995. It was when the Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet), a consortium of private and government institutions, enabled the Filipinos to be connected live via a 64 kbps link to Sprint in the United States .I was lucky because I was born on the year 1992 where internet began to become a popular medium for communication.

When I was googling for my assignment, I was confident that researching for an internet related activity that happened on the same month and year of my birthdate was easy. And yes, I was right. Even though my birth date was not remarkable in the history, some worldwide events had happened such as the biggest concert of Ferry Mercury in London where 80 000 people had attended and the celebration of Adolf Hitler’s birthday. (Yes, we have the same birthday!).

As I continued to research for an internet-related event that happened on the 20^th day of April 1992, I found out that this date was the birth of the Dot-com bubble. I was clueless about it that’s why I made further research about what this dot-com bubble is. According to google, Dot-com bubble was an internet-based company that did most of its business on the Internet. Its type of bussiness model relied on harnessing network effects by operating at a sustained net loss to build market share . These companies offered their services or end product for free with the expectation that they could build enough brand awareness to charge profitable rates for their services. 

Some of the companies involved in the dot-com bubbles were: Boo.com- a British Internet company that was launched in the Autumn of 1999 selling branded fashion apparel over the Internet, Free Internet. Com which was a Free Internet Provider, GeoCities which was purchased by Yahoo! for $3.57 billion, Hotmail, The Learning Company, Info Space, and many more

This business, though didn’t last until the year 2000 was still influential because it gave rise to the idea of using internet not only for the purpose of communication but for the purpose of business and globalization.  

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freei

http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/ahitler.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startups.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freddie_Mercury_Tribute_Concert 

By: Kathleen Joy Gabaon

 

May 17, 1993: Intel® Corporation released its new Pentium® Processor.

Well that explains it, then.


I've never really figured myself to be someone inclined to technology. When I was a kid all I did was play with my toys and with some kid-neighbors. I even remember often playing that stupid chinese garter game. -_-'


I am pretty aware that I am the oldest student in the class. Come on, that's downplaying it. I may even be the oldest student in our batch for heaven's sake. But that's not stopping me to fit in. Ha, not at all.


IMO my generation straddled the line between being the old, traditional lifestyle of the "analog" age, with which term I used only to contrast with the digital age being the other side of the line my generation sat on. When we discussed about the digital natives and the digital settlers, I was at the end of my wits figuring out where I even belong.

I like to think that I was born amidst the boom of computing, computer gaming and the peak of the internet "revolution", but as it turns out it was then that I was growing up. I was able to use every computer processing technology from Intel's Pentium® Processor--which, strangely enough, was introduced on my 4th birthday, May 17, 1993--up to the most current Intel Core i-series. I was able to play game consoles from Atari to the FamiCom to the Playstation One, Two and Three. I saw black and white Televisions, we had CRT Monitors and TV's when I was growing up. I think we also had a plasma TV once and now, of course, LCD/LED TV's and monitors. I was fascinated for a few months how analog wristwatches worked but when my dad introduced me a digital Casio watch that has a cool blue backlight, I never reverted back to analog watches until I was in high school.


Well, I know most of us probably went through similar accounts, but I just feel that I did savor everything these tech products have to offer at the time and, thus, might have been the reason why I'm a techie nerd like me.


I'm also a music person. When I was young I got to listen to songs that my auntie like. So those were Eraserheads songs, Oasis, and that bit of stuff. Although I didn't really get into music when I was young (I was a J-pop fanboy in my early highschool years) I did like listening to them when they're being played, even to the point of me associating different songs to different points in my life. Yeah, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" reminds me of the day my dad introduced a certain computer game. Now looking at a site about my birthday here, there were a number of songs and singles released on May 17, none of which I recognize but most of which I think became hits. I assume as much because, well frankly I think of myself as a hit. HAHA.


My mother used to tell me stories about how catastrophic the Earth was when I was growing; I was a baby in need of looking after when the Pinatubo erupted years ago, and actually, closer to home, when I was born--I think it was around about 4pm on May 17th, 1989, there was a really really aggressive storm, according to my parents. My dad had to rush from Canlubang to Makati in heavy rain when my mom was on labor with me.

Looking up in the same website, there were a total of five nuclear tests in three different years in Texas and Colorado on May 17. On the same day in 1940, Germany began invading France. on 1976, an earthquake in Uzbekistan killed at least a thousand. Well, there's a fair number of tragedies during the May 17's on different years. Could it be that I'm a disaster myself?...


...NOT A CHANCE!

Jb Aquino

the "beatbreaker"

P.S. for commenting, we should use our own accounts or something, right? That'll be mine.

We Don't Have It Easy (An Unsmooth Segue)

I squirm and swear under my breath whenever older people tell us that we have it easy. It may be true that we can access all the information we may need by a single mouse click but the laws of life will never make anything easier (not forever, at least). The fact is when you can produce something faster and easier, you're expected to produce more. In our case, it's "work". 

My parents would tell me that there was once a time when googling was unheard of and libraries were still the first choice source for info. They failed to tell me how the situation was back then though: the ratio of students to in-demand books, how detailed their reports had to be and what else they had to do at the same time. Googling is a double-edged sword. You can find information faster but you'll be expected to have more information or find out more information about other things. We now have to do so much stuff at the same time, the oldies had to coin the term "multi-tasking" to keep up. It seems that old expressions such as "nagsusunog ng kilay" and "hitting the books" can't accurately describe the modern student anymore. 

Think about it. We know so much stuff that our parents haven't even heard of even if those things existed before and during their time as students. Man. The modern search engine plays an important part in this phenomenon. In September of 1990, the first search engine, Archie (a play on the word archive) was born. It didn't have the indexing capability that we enjoy with our current search engines. You had to know the exact file name to access the document. Unbelievable, I know. 

All this technology available and the Internet is amazing but we really shouldn't be surprised anymore. Heck, Mark Twain conceptualized the Internet in 1898, the year of our independence from Spain. With every astonishing achievement in technology comes a challenge to maximize our output and that's something that will go on until the world ends via zombie apocalypse.

I'm ready for that too.

                                                                                                                     Wacky Torres

Delayed Gratification

January is the most beautiful month in calendar for it marks the start of another year. It symbolizes another opportunity to make life even better. The same goes for the year 1990 which marked the beginning of a wonderful decade of Metallica, boy bands, Spice girls, Leonardo de Caprio and etc. Combining January and 1990 together, the month and year I was born, should be one of the greatest moment in time. Or so I thought?

As I was google-ing for amazing events, cool inventions and personalities born on January 1990, I was expecting to see A-list celebrities to have the same birthday as me, mind blowing inventions of man and unforgettable events in history but Google failed to meet my expectations. I found insignificant results leaving my ego crushed and disappointed. I’ve always thought that the day I entered this earth was something so special that the world celebrated with my parents by having grandeur events and stupefying inventions commemorating my existence. Was that too much imagination? I guess the world postponed everything the day I was born because my mere nativity was way too special to handle. Kidding!

In all actually, I was just trying to comfort myself with the fact that almost all great digital and internet inventions were released in 1991. However, Tim-Lee Berners was still on the process of perfecting the HTML on January 1990. Even though, the internet and digital world were on hiatus on my birth month something remarkable did happen too.

In January 1990, a man named Andrew Cushman rejoined Microsoft Corporation. His contributions to Microsoft allowed us to enjoy the internet to what it is today. He acquired his bachelor’s degree in international studies at the University of Washington and a master’s degree in international business in Seattle University. Andrew Cushman held positions in various Microsoft teams such as Microsoft Money Team, Microsoft International Product Group and most importantly, the Internet Information Services (IIS) team. He spearheaded the development of the IIS 6.0 in the Windows Server 2003. The IIS is a web server application that enables a computer to host and manage a website and other internet contents. It also provides WWW publishing services, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) and Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) services. It also has a feature called Modules which allow the server to process requests. This IIS of Microsoft is one of the top web server applications used by many internet websites. At present, an IIS version 7.5 is already available. Features such as Client Certificate Mapping, IP Security, Request Filtering, URL Authorization are added in the IIS 7.5. Cushman is also the Senior Director of Strategy in the Trustworthy Computing Group of Microsoft where he strives for a safer and more trusted Internet. He is also part of the Industry Consortium for the Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), a non-profit forum of collaborating IT vendors that battles internet security threats for a better and protected IT infrastructures. Andrew Cushman represents Microsoft and he shares his knowledge of IT in ICASI for the improvement of security response programs and in minimizing security threats in the internet.

Andrew Cushman’s contributions to the internet are truly remarkable and significant. We must be thankful that on January 1990, he decided to rejoin Microsoft Corporation because he has done so much in improving internet features. We can say that if it was not for him, the security of the internet would not have been this rigorous. We would not be able to enjoy the websites that we religiously visit. Nothing great may have been released on that day but that job opening led to something unexpectedly good.

Sources :

http://www.icasi.org/?q=node/11

http://www.icasi.org/aboutus

http://www.iis.net/team

Remember, remember the 6th of August

Tim Berners-Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,2000. 
Photo: Ed Quinn / Corbis

 

On August 6, 1991, the world witnessed the introduction and launch of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee. On this day, Berners-Lee posted the “first web pages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents”. His post was put up on a certain alt.hypertext discussion group where other people were given the chance to download and work around with it. Remarkably, the idea of creating a “world wide web” started in 1980 when Berners-Lee began his project called the Enquire (basically the forerunner of the Web)  when he was still working at CERN.   

I found it rather amusing when I discovered that on the month I was born, something life-altering was brought out to the world. I bet back then, harvesting your strawberries or checking up on updates of celebrities wasn’t much of a big deal, neither was looking at the latest video with a million hits over night. Things were far different from what they are today, where it seems as if people have been absorbed to the cyber world – captivated and under the control of these things (or websites for this case), pretty much how drugs work (Why not make the internet illegal as well? But that’s obviously out of the question).

World Wide Web by ~art-exp
(DeviantArt)

As I read more articles regarding Berners-Lee and his “World Wide Web”, I slowly realize how things have rapidly changed through the years. Funny how my brain wasn’t even filled with any information back then but someone has already come up with something brilliant - the idea of linking people together. The World Wide Web we know today, though quite “new” as compared to other revolutionary inventions, has developed and improved greatly over a short span of time. From simpler web pages with more complicated and lengthy HTML codes, we now have more sophisticated pages with unfussy and unproblematic codes that practically anyone can master and create. Aside from rapid development, in a matter of years, the web has influenced a great number of people, if not almost everyone in the world, offering different things that cater to whatever need man can think of. We communicate and entertain ourselves using the web and the internet, and not to mention, we also gather a large amount of the information we use from them.

Ever since I exposed myself to this technological advancement, I couldn’t quite grasp what it would be like without it – how would the world be without the web? This modern innovation has made the world smaller in all aspects and has linked and connected people in different ways. I could never be more thankful for a Tim Berners-Lee who has made things more accessible and easy for the rest of us. However, I still strongly believe that we must never be slaves of what we create because, in the end, we still should take responsibility over our lives. These things we create, like the web, are meant to ease daily activities, not completely consume our time and effort for worthless doings. It’s not all about the strawberries you get, or the number of retweets and hits you receive in hours, nor is it about the image you project to everyone in your profile to catch the attention of someone. Tim Berners-Lee had an exceptional idea of connecting everyone on the phase of the planet so why waste it on just these when we can optimize the use of this commodity for further development and progress.

Posted by

 Jara Lucero

Sources:

"Internet History Timeline." History Timelines. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. <http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/11-internet-history-timeline.htm>.

Long, By Tony. "Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web." Wired News. 7 Aug. 2007. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/dayintech_0807>.

Quittner, By Joshua. "TIME 100: Tim Berners-Lee." Time Inc. Portal. 29 Mar. 1999. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. <http://205.188.238.109/time/time100/scientist/profile/bernerslee.html>.

Ward, By Mark. "BBC NEWS | Technology | How the Web Went World Wide." BBC News - Home. 3 Aug. 2006. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5242252.stm>.

Tim Berners-Lee photo by Ed Quinn/Corbi. 2000. <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/dayintech_0807#ixzz15sTWyt1U>

World Wide Web in Traditional Art/Drawings/Unsorted by ~art-exp in DeviantArt, copyright 2002-2010 <http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=world%20wide%20web&order=9&offset=48#/dfln5>

Trick or Treat? It was definitely a TREAT..

Ever wondered how television shows and films managed not to have special effects way back? By special effects I mean good transitions, interesting opening bill boards and closing credits. Big machines were used for these kind of stuff and would cost as much as $ 100,000 - $ 500,000. That is why it is kind of easy to distinguish which networks were able to afford such machines. But, with the birth of Video Toaster by the NewTek Inc., almost every video effect became possible with just a relatively small disk that contains the soft ware and the Video Toaster card that was made compatible to the computer lines of the Amiga Inc. Oh, and have I mentioned that this remarkable device was introduced the same month and year I was born? Cool? Totally.

Video Toaster Card

                The Video Toaster is a video switching device mainly used for transition on television shows and films. The machine could manage up to four inputs which mean if you are taping a live show, you could plug up to four cameras. It was designed by Tim Jenison, the founder of the Newtek Inc. with the help of Engineer Brad Carvey who “built the first wire wrap prototype” and the software was written by Steve Kell. However, it is not only used for transition but also for special video effects like “chroma keying, character generation, animation, and image manipulation.” Here is an interview that presented the special features of the Video Toaster: 

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGCYoZ5Nlk)

                During that time, networks and even private households found the Video Toaster very remarkable and more importantly cheaper than the bigger video switching machines that ever existed. It costs $ 1,595 including the software and you could make your own videos complete with all special effects and is already of broadcast quality. More features include “LightWave, a 3D modeling, rendering, and animation program.” I mean, who would not want that?

                With its success, the Amiga Inc. tried to capitalize on the product and made promotions like offering the Video Toaster card and software with an Amiga computer and sync generator for $ 5,000.

As such, during the early 1990s the Toaster was used quite widely by many desktop video enthusiasts and local television studios and was even used during "The Tonight Show" regularly to produce special effects for comedy skits. (Fact|date=February 2007) It was frequently easy to detect a studio that used the Toaster by the unique and recognizable special switching effects. Also all of the external submarine shots in the TV series "seaQuest DSV" were created using Lightwave 3D, as were the outer space scenes in the TV series "Babylon 5.”

                Personally, I learned making videos through Windows Movie Maker until I finally used editing softwares such as Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere. The Video Toaster signalled the emergence of these kinds of video editing softwares and it is really interesting to learn how NewTek was able to invent it. Many other improved versions of the Video Toaster were introduced and to date, Video Toaster 5 or VT5 is the latest model of the NewTek Inc.

                October 1990 marked the birth of this promising device and after that, post-production was never again the same. 

Sources:

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1990

http://www.newtek.com/vt/

http://www.answers.com/topic/video-toaster

http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/104361

http://www.google.com.ph/imglanding?q=Video+Toaster&hl=tl&gbv=2&tbs=isch:1&tbnid=7ou4rtvSqxUn4M:&imgrefurl=http://kcomputerzone.ca/pages/computer-history/gallery/commodore.php&imgurl=http://kcomputerzone.ca/media/gallery/Commodore/Amiga%2525202500/Video%252520Toaster%252520Card.JPG&zoom=1&w=800&h=594&iact=hc&ei=9TvnTMafE4iuvgPS5ezCCA&oei=9TvnTMafE4iuvgPS5ezCCA&esq=1&page=1&tbnh=124&tbnw=149&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0&biw=1138&bih=544

Something to lighten things up...

From. 15 pairs of twins create a human mirror on a New York subway car.

Looking Back. Looking into the future.

March 24, 1992. What's online?

The world wide web is still on it's toddler years, and has not even touched the Philippine soil.

Perhaps, I and those people born in the early 1990's were the digital babies, born in the 'transitionary' period from the 'old world' to the 'digital world', but I would not get access to the Web, and the internet for that matter, until 12 years after.

One thing that I have to unlearn and deconstruct in my being after thoroughly studying the foundations of the internet is that the terms 'internet' and 'world wide web' are not two same concepts. For all the years I've been logging on my multiple social networking accounts and googling high school assignments, I thought internet and the web are just plain synonyms. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the two are distinctly different (but maybe interdependent) things. Much less knowing that the internet began on the middle of the 20th century while the web debuted only in 1991.

So what's happening during March 1992?

Microsoft and Fox Software announce that they intend to merge. Under the terms of the final agreement, Dave Fulton and other Fox employees will join Microsoft. So Microsoft and the other softwares were already developed while even my parents didn't have access to a PC.

America Online had its initial public offering on March 19, 1992. Just 5 days before my exact birthday, AOL opened its stocks to the public to expand its capital. The province where I am in might have had gigantic computers by then, but I bet no one in our place, nor even in our country, knew all what the hullabaloo of the web is. For them, the term online meant a telephone caller, while the term Web, is for spiders and the dusty ceilings. Net implied a fisherman's tool.

Internet Society (or ISOC) is chartered. The Internet Society (ISOC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education and policy. They are dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.

World-Wide Web released by CERN. The Web has been exclusive to the CERN from its conception in 1991 until March 1992. So I think I can be proud with the fact that I grew up in parallel with the growth of the internet, but it grew up so faster as compared to my growth that by the end of 1992, there were already 50 web servers in the world. In April 2001, There were 24 million web servers! Had I grown up as fast as the internet, I would have been very big by now. The internet started with only one Web server located at CERN in 1991.

NSFNET backbone upgraded to T3 (44.736Mbps). Ooops, so much for techie stuff.

Needless to say, the web grew up so exponentially in the past few decades. We have seen the birth and death of Friendster (and that was the end of an era!), we have seen the different interfaces of Facebook, different themes of Google, the obsolete-ness of the Internet Explorer. The internet gave Charisse Pempengco worldwide fame, while many young men sourced eroticism from the Web's pornsites. With the internet, we have endless possibilities.

So before I end this blog, let me tell you an anecdote of my life. Haha.

As a kid of an OFW dad, I could remember countless stories of my mom writing in yellow pad and mailing my dad as their only source of communication, letters that took 2 months to arrive in Libya. My mother would oftentimes show me old letters in dusty envelopes she had been taking care of in the years. When I was six, we would record our voices in blank tapes, conversing with a radio, then my mom would send it to my dad, also taking months to arrive. There were crucial times, like when my paternal grandfather died in October 1995, and my dad knew all about it in January of 1996. Communication was really hard that time.

Now, just recently, I had to send a business mail to Ortigas for an academic interview. Imagine my 'tenseness' upon my first entry to the UP Post Office. I didn't know how to send a real mail. Really, our culture of sending mail has changed, I can even predict that Post Offices will die in a few years. Also, one of my uncles died here in the Philippines 3 weeks ago, and my parents in the Middle East knew it earlier than me, and that I was so surprised that they arrived for the wake a day after. They knew about my uncle's death via personal communication in the internet. So maybe, Internet doesn't just change lives. Internet also changes deaths. Haha.

Anyhoo, that's it for March 1992. Let's all be witnesses as to what directions the web will take from this day onwards.

Sources:

http://www.google.com.ph/imglanding

http://www.besthistorysites.net/

http://www.w3.org/History.html

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/

file:///C:/Users/teptep/Desktop/Junior%20-%20Second%20Sem/The-History-of-Microsoft-1992.htm

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