Foot: Oh hey, Paranoia, what's up?

So after reading Little Brother, I have decided that the government is watching my every move. After seeing this video, I just feel a little more paranoid. This kind of reminds me of how the government was tracking people's traveling patterns throughout Little Brother.

Here's the video:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105

Foot: The Beginning of the Internet

While reading An Oral History of the Internet, I learned that the internet wasn't just a sudden invention in the 1990s. I knew that a lot of it came along in the Cold War era, but not that it dated back to 1969. I thought it was cool how in the very beginning, there were only about 5 computers linked up to each other. As time went on, the need for a browser came about, and when the article was talking about Mosaic, the first internet browser, Marc Andreessen said how him and a coworker were working on it as a side project. He mentions, "...there was the first issue of Wired on the shelf. I bought it. In it there’s all this science-fiction stuff. The Internet’s not mentioned. Even in Wired"
For those of you that don't know, Wired is a technology magazine that is super nerdy! hehe

I thought this quote was really funny, but also made me wonder what is being created right now that the general public has no knowledge of? This kind of ties in with Little Brother because so far (up until page 120) it seems like the government knows a lot more about technology and how to track people using it.

My favorite chapter from An Oral History of the Internet was "Going Public." I thought it was cool to know how Amazon.com was created. Something that really stuck out to me was how the creator, Jeff Bezos, had made a list of 20 things to sell online, and decided on books.

Growing up with the internet makes it seem like such a natural tool to use, but seeing how it was conceptualized and invented really brings it back to being an amazing invention. I can only imagine how the people interviewed in the Vanity Fair article felt while they were making breakthroughs and connecting the world.