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The Very First Internet Advertisements
The Very First Internet Advertisements
When the internet very first started out, not many Americans could afford a computer let alone, access to the internet. This of course took some time and eventually it became easier to access. However, not a lot of Internet advertisements were seen because companies had not yet come up with ideas as to advertise their product. Not many companies had their own product websites yet either. Through progress and time, they slowly started to appear on the Internet. Now they are all over the Internet, trying to sell their products as well as their services to potential online customers.
The very first Internet advertisements were basically quite simple, straight to the point and also the location where the products could be located. Then the consumer market for these companies started to improve the Internet advertisements with the new software programs that were coming available for certain types of computers.
Some of these upgrades included multi media as well as flash player just to name a few. This opened the door for the creators of the Internet advertising world. Animation and different color displays with better resolution could be used. By the year 2000, almost any big department store could be found on the Internet, as well as their Internet advertisings.
Sales increased, and it was obvious that more consumers were in fact able to view products and information on the products through the use of the Internet. This became a flood of technical Internet advertisement for even more companies. Even during the season that were not holiday related more Internet advertisements were used for many companies. Now, there are so many Internet advertisements on the Internet that some of the websites a lot of people often go too are being congested or over run by these Internet advertisements.
Even now, with the bigger companies having their own web sites they still rely on forn on Internet advertising on different smaller sites such as gaming sites and others. Knowing this will promote their offers and their store web sites even further. Of course the Internet advertisements also include some kind of sales pitch, they all go back to the same origin, promotion of products of the stores.
You have to take into account too, that major businesses are starting to promote their businesses as well by the use of the Internet advertising, such as spas and gyms, or different restaurants in the area. So as far as Internet advertising goes, for now, there are virtually not many limits set. It used to be somewhat difficult to obtain “space” on the Internet but that is obviously nor the case now.
As you see more Internet advertisements, then you can see the proof of the space over the World Wide Web and all the possibilities it now has to offer.
None the less, some consumers feel there are too many Internet advertisements being placed on the internet causing more chaos than there used to be, when so many were not listed on different websites. This of course if called progress, and everyone knows you can’t stop progress very easily.
First Video Game Systems to the Latest in Gaming Consoles
First Video Game Systems to the Latest in Gaming Consoles
The history of video games has come a long way. Today, you will see video game consoles integrated with state-of-the-art graphics technology and amazing sound quality that can rival your home entertainment systems. There are even gaming consoles that has different features that can rival your home PC.
For example, you will find that some gaming consoles available today have realistic graphics and Hollywood-like acting. Computer generated 3D characters even contains facial expressions and body movements almost similar to the real thing.
If you play with these consoles, you will see that the characters in it move very much like real people. But, in fact, these characters are the product of the latest 3D technology available. Not only that, characters in these games even have human like features. Some even have beards, different eye colors, and some even have hairs that moves just like the real thing.
Other integrated features that you will see in some gaming consoles available in the market today are the memory cards, where you can save your game progress, joysticks and steering wheels to add a little more realism to driving and flight simulation games, simulated guns to add realism to shooting games, and even vibration feedback to controls.
There are even gaming consoles available in the market today that can be connected to the internet. With these feature, you can join multiplayer games in the internet and play with other people from all over the world. So, if you get bored fighting AI (artificial intelligence) from regular games, you can buy a game that is available for massively multiplayer online role playing games or MMORPG.
However, before you go out and buy the real thing, you should know where all these games started. Just like any other invention, gaming consoles or gaming systems started out as having rough graphics, simple sounds and very simple game play.
In the early years of video game systems, you will find that it all started out in a simple game that was called “Tennis for Two”. This particular video game was introduced back in 1958 and was consisted of two horizontal lines across the screen, and a short perpendicular line that represented the net.
This particular game was the root of all video games and from here, video game developers started competing and producing different games and came to the point of having great graphics and sound quality.
In the mid 70s, a company called Atari came out with a video game system that revolutionized the world of video games. It was called the Video Computer System or VCS. This system became one of the hottest selling gaming systems in its day. As you see today’s latest gaming system, you will find it hard to believe that people even bought these things.
However, you have to consider the fact that in the past, because of the early technology in graphics and sounds, and 3D graphics were virtually non existent, these video gaming systems were considered as state-of-the-art. And, many people enjoyed playing with it. If you were born in this era, and played with these video game systems, you know how much fun it is to play with.
Integrated with simple graphics, simple sound effects and simple game play, it was relatively easy to play with. The whole family can really spend hours on end to play with video game systems in the past. Everyone can play with these simple machines, even children.
Today, since game developers are taking games to another level, adding realistic graphics and realistic sounds, each game are now rated by the ESRB or the Entertainment Software Rating Board. You will see that each of the gaming title will contain letters, such as E, T, M, and AO. These letters represent on who can play the game. E represents Everyone, T represents Teens only, M for Mature gamers, and AO represents Adults Only.
More and more games today are integrated with realism of violence and gore where it can really affect your child’s psychology. This is why it is important for you to check the ESRB rating before buying a particular game.
There are even games available today that can recreate the battlefield in World War II. You can even see bodies around the simulated Normandy beach that are either decapitated or a realistic person spurting blood calling out for a medic.
You can easily see how long video game systems have come in terms of graphics and sound quality.
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New High School Is First In Arizona Schools To Have No Textbooks
New High School Is First In Arizona Schools To Have No Textbooks
Empire High School in Vail, located on the edge of Tucson, is the first in the Arizona schools to be all-electronic. Instead of textbooks, the 350 students use wireless, Apple laptop computers to research, organize their data, write and graph assignments, and create class presentations.
The Arizona schools Empire High is a new school with a blank slate. Arizona schools officials could hire new teachers committed to technology-based teaching and purchase computers instead of textbooks. The Arizona schools officials wanted to move teachers away from habitual teaching from textbooks, cover-to-cover, and gave area students the choice to attend Empire or another school.
Having researched schools in other states prior to the all-electronic decision, Arizona schools officials found students who were clearly more engaged in their studies and unusually enthusiastic about school. One reason was that they took a more active part in the lesson process, rather than everything being “fed” to them. Another advantage to laptops over textbooks is that groundbreaking information takes five to six years to get into textbooks, especially in the science fields. Of the few all-electronic schools across the nation, many are doing well from the perspective of both the students and the educators. The Arizona schools officials clearly felt they could enhance their students’ educational experience with technology over textbooks.
Replacing textbooks with laptops for other Arizona schools would prove expensive at 0 each. For Empire, they took the usual 0 to 0 cost per student for a complete set of textbooks for four years, as well as the cost of a computer lab, and used this money to purchase the laptops and added technology needs.
Some new challenges had to be faced by the Arizona schools’ new Empire High and research was done to address them. They had 350 students, who needed to be continuously and reliably connected to the Internet at high speed. All the laptops had to be configured to best suit the needs of the students for learning. The needed educational material had to be located on the Internet and integrated into lesson plans. A method for students to submit assignments across the Web was needed. These were problems they knew had to be resolved before the school year began.
What the Arizona schools officials had not planned on was a different sort of technological problem. It seems that many students who used home computers for gaming, surfing the Internet, and X-Box, had a difficult time translating these skills to those needed in school, such as using word processing software, saving documents to specific locations, and being able to retrieve the files later. Skills training had to be added to the lesson plans.
For other schools that are interested in setting up an all-electronic school, the Arizona schools officials advise that it must be a public choice. You cannot force such drastic learning changes. Include the parents and teachers in the planning at the ground floor.
After a year, the system is working well overall. The Arizona schools plan to increase enrollment at Empire High to 750 students in the near future.