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Internet Power!

March 20, 2008 at 3:04 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dance, video, technology, internet

KRISTIN SLOAN
New York City Ballet
New York, NY USA
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Amazing 1995 video about the internet. It’s funny to look back.
Wish I had some home video of trying to slog through Prodigy - at a blazing 14.4 kbps. I think we got it in 93 maybe? (my parents were/are awesome in supporting my tech interests as much as they could) I remember not being sure what to do with it besides weather, really slow loading news articles, and trying to play games, where it would take like 3 minutes for each screen of the game to load. There was the promise of using it for research for homework and book reports - the entire encyclopedia at your fingertips! - but I don’t remember that working all that well until AOL and higher connection speeds came along.
via kottke, originally digitized/uploaded by waxy.org

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Milt said,

March 20, 2008 @ 5:01 pm

I remember attending a technology conference for teachers about this time and hearing that a *28.8* modem had been developed. My how times have changed.

As far as research goes, I told some dance teachers in my district about thewinger.com thinking their students would learn a lot. So of course the district added it to the list of blocked sites.

kristin sloan said,

March 20, 2008 @ 8:54 pm

they blocked us? what did we do?

Milt said,

March 24, 2008 @ 3:48 am

I’ll write down all the reasons given and post them tomorrow. Given the conservative nature of many people in the district, it’s really impossible to say what the actual reason was.

Milt said,

March 24, 2008 @ 11:12 pm

I asked some questions today and found out the decision to block a site is made by a committee. There’s no way to find out what they found offensive but the message that comes up says it was blocked because the site is
“Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies; Personal Pages.” Someone probably didn’t read for content and thought this was just a chat site. I’ve filed an appeal to try and get the block removed. They also blocked Sylvie Guillem’s site calling it a “Spam email url.” Go figure.