Much as the young adults of the sixties remember their location and reaction to hearing the news of President Kennedy's assasination or even those of the 40's their whereabouts upon hearing of the attack on Pearl Harbor...we will remember life's monumental moments of our time. Those events will include the Oklahoma City bombing, the explosion of the spaceship Columbia and of course 9-11. I have to believe that some of our most vivid memories will include technology. For instance, when I was in high school I did not have a cell phone. Now that is almost unheard of among high schoolers. I signed up for an email account during a computer class my sophomore year and I can specifically remember acquiring an AOL account (thanks Sam). This is where so many of life's changes have risen from in the past decades. We feel vulnerable when leaving the house without our cell phone, out of the loop when we aren't apart of the latest social networking sites and even consider the internet our surest form for information. We are a technological generation.
My thoughts on this stem from being curious where the word "blog" originated. As I'm sure most of you already know (I'm a little behind), blog is short for the word weblog. A weblog is simply (or not so simply) a web site the contains an online journal with reflections, thoughts and hyperlinks. The word blog entered the dictionary in 1999 and was the word of the year in 2004. Within a decade a new phenomenon has emerged.
So here's to my newest memorable moment...my weblog.
1 comment:
Did you know that "Blog" is a technology term second graders need to know....you're right times have change. What ever happened to dial up???
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