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  Sherman Antitrust Act:     The Sherman Antitrust Act was established in 1890 and is named after Senator John Sherman of Ohio. Sherman was the Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes. This act was the first act passed by congress that outlawed the practice of monopolistic businesses. This act prevents a business or a person in that business from getting too powerful. Monopolies were and still are seen as dangerous and one business having executive power isn't good for business. People during the time of the 1890s were in favor of the Sherman Antitrust Act because they felt it would protect small businesses. According to FTC.gov, "T he Sherman Act outlaws "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," and any "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize" (ftc.gov).  This act was passed on April 8, 1890, by the Senate with a resounding vote of 51-1. It was then sent to the House on June 20

   Ted Talks about Privacy:      Something that sticks out to me in listening to these Ted Talks on privacy is how little the public knows. These researchers have learned about all the breaches of privacy but more than half the population has no idea that they are basically being watched 24/7. The scary thing about being constantly observed is that we don't know what information they are compiling and if it is accurate. Someone could be placed on a watch list for doing something that they didn't do. In one of the videos, she talked about license plate readers and how they are constantly being monitored. But what is scary about that is that I let people borrow my car all the time. When I'm home, my parents use my car often but that license plate is a reflection of me. Or similarly, someone could be signed into my Google account searching for things that I don't want in my private history. While it's my "fault" for not signing out or allowing someone to use

  Diffusion of Innovation - Instant Messaging Instant Messaging is good.  Pioneers - 1996 ( First company launches one to one messaging) Early Adopters - 2002 (Apple launches ichat) Early Majority - 2006 (MySpace, first messaging platform) Late Adopters - 2009 (WhatsApp launched, now able to send pics and vids) Laggards - 2020 (People still don't have texting on their phones)     The timeline of instant messaging is one that moves very quickly because instant messaging gained popularity quickly. People loved the idea of sending messages to friends and being able to talk without speaking. It only made it better that we had the technology to advance this idea quickly. In 1996 the first company launched a messaging platform. It was called ICQ and allowed for one to one messaging. At its peak, there were 100 million registered accounts. They were the pioneers because this was the first time this type of technology was being used. The Early adopters came in 2002 when Apple launched mess

 Technology Presentation - Facebook      One presentation that stood out to me was the one about Facebook. Facebook is actually one of my most used social media but there was so much about it that I didn't know. For starters, I didn't know that it was first created for Harvard students only. According to the class presentation, Facebook's original intent was to connect Harvard students and allow them to branch out and get to know each other. It wasn't until years later that Facebook opened itself up, branching away from Harvard and became a place for other college students. Word got around quickly of this new website and more and more people wanted to join. Facebook kept developing and it soon became a place for college and high school students. People all over the country loved the website and in order for more people to be able to use it, the website became open to anyone over the age of thirteen in 2006. Now it is open to anyone and it has millions of users.      I h

  Something New I Learned     During the Technology History presentations today I learned so much about early technology. One thing that stood out to me that I hadn't been aware of came from the Printing Press presentation. During this presentation Drew mentioned how Albert Einstein said that religions wouldn't be the way they are today if it wasn't for the printing press. She said that people used to not believe things unless they were written down and prior to the printing press it was hard to produce writings. Once the press was invented bibles and other religious writings were now able to be typed out and mass-produced. Because of this more and more people became aware of religions and were able to switch if they wanted. They were unaware of options before but the printing press made that easier. Einstein credits the printing press for the expansion of religions.      According to the presentation, the printing press opened the door for so many literary works. It allowe

       YouTube was launched on February 14th, 2005. Former Pay-Pal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were the ones behind the project. They were headquartered in San Bruno, California, and are still located there today. The website only took a couple of months to develop and had a pretty successful launch. YouTube was formed based on the idea that regular people would like a central place to watch other people’s “home videos” (Britanica.com). YouTube was almost an immediate success within its first few months and it had 30,000 viewers a day. People enjoyed watching other people’s videos as well as uploading their own. YouTube was a new form of entertainment that had never been seen before. YouTube allowed for more creativity and personal expression on the internet. People were now able to create and share their own content showing their own creativity.  As mentioned, YouTube was instantly successful and was bought by Google around a year and a half after its launch.