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Class Monday, May 15, 2017

 Today’s goals:

  • Celebrate Internet Day early and learn some important internet history
  • Update your portfolio on the class website
  • Get parallax answer code from last week (if needed for students who weren’t here Friday). If you grab this, make sure you paste and save it into a NEW Notepad++ page so you don’t lose your original work with your word and background image.
  • Quick PSA- Avoiding the WannaCry and other internet viruses

 Today’s featured website:

  • http://www.happyinternetday.com/– Internet Day is May 17 (Wednesday). Let’s go to this site and find out the following:
    1. What year IP addresses began being used
    2. What BITNET stands for
    3. What year the first internet standard for email was created (SMTP)
    4. What year DNS (Domain Name System) was established
    5. When the first .com domain name was registered
    6. The name of and year when of one of the first computer worms (i.e. virus)
    7. The name of and year when the first commercial Internet Service Provider was launched
    8. The name of and year when the first internet search engine was launched
    9. When the World Wide Web (WWW) was launched
    10. When the audio file mp3 became available
    11. The name of and year when the first web browser was released
    12. When Yahoo! launched
    13. When Internet Explorer launched
    14. When eBay launched
    15. When Amazon launched
    16. The name of and year when the first social network was launched
    17. When Google launched
    18. When wireless internet became possible
    19. When iTunes launched
    20. When Wikipedia launched
    21. When Safari launched
    22. When Facebook launched
    23. When Gmail launched
    24. What launched first, Vimeo or YouTube?
    25. When Twitter launched
    26. When Google Street View started
    27. When Google Chrome launched
    28. When Spotify launched
    29. When Bing launched
    30. When Instagram launched
    31. When Snapchat launched
    32. What is Microsoft Edge?
    33. What percentage of the world’s over 7 billion people are internet users?

 Update Your Online Portfolio

  • Log in here (user name is first name, password is whatever you chose; if you can’t log in, see me)
  • Click Pages from the left-hand menu, then search for your name in the search box at the top right. When you find your name, your portfolio page should be right below it. Click edit to start adding content to the page.
  • Add: Any Harvest of the Month graphics you haven’t added already (find them here if you don’t still have them); your Medford Farmers Market graphics (Period 2); and a screen shot of your word page WITHOUT the jQuery (comment out the jQuery code AND the div tags in your HTML by adding HTML comment tags around the script tags)
  • When you finish: Let me know so I can check it out.