CHLF: Video Games

       Video games have been one of the driving forces for technology improvements, and it is because of gamers that we do have what we got today in the world of technology. I mean think about it, if it was not for gamers we would not have been able to fund certain core technology from artificial intelligence to faster equipment. When gaming was first peaking it's head out of the world, technology also was just popping up. Things was marvelous at that time.
       The very first video game was actually NOT pong like most people believe it is. It was a game by the name of "Tennis for Two" that was only available to play at a university. They was of course trying to push the limits of technology thus far, and what better way then to play with it to do things that we think are impossible at the time. Now some may say that this is a one and a lifetime thing, as in after this, games must have just been created for fun right? Wrong! Games like Star Fox was orginally built to test new parts of computer history, it is just that they became so popular with not only the developers but anyone who touched it.
        The evolution of the game is pretty vast and wonderful, and gets more exiting and complicated as time goes by. There are the ASCII adventures played on someones computer, where one would have to make decisions, and effectively follow the set in stone story line that the creator of the game had made; To the arcade games where there was less story and more of just trying to be better than the person before you. If one watches, they can see the two {Story driven and Competition driven} games start to merge, into what we have know.
        The technology that we have used to play these games have become better as well. Thanks to video games we have created faster computers, vast systems for entertainment at home, and 'smart' handheld devices that can, guess what, play games!\

Your Fellow Technomancer,

Kyle Atterson

CHLF: The Blogosphere

YTF Note: Sorry for short story, tired from doing a lot today, but still is pretty a interesting topic.

In 1997, the word "weblog" was coined by a Mr. Jorn Barger. The term was used for pages that held within them links to actual sites. One way to think of how this is, is think of your bookmark function on your browser. Now take that idea, and put it on a web page for the world to view. That was weblogging, the father to the blogosphere. The blogophere (a term that stands for the links between all blogs), is something that will always exist because of how the internet works with the interconnectedness.

Blogs soon started becoming adding more and more content to where they soon left what they started. They added more and more words and reviews and feelings and grew to they. Then as a joke someone said on his site "we blog" by splicing the weblog, and thus created the term blog.