Convergence

Convergence  in technology is like the growing generations, as we progress technology progresses with us. So it is kind of like Moore's Law in a way, that has everything to do with computational speed and that other junk. I think they have actually blown moore's law out of the water because it is actually going faster than he predicted. 

I get really really confused when it comes to convergence and all the new discoveries happening around me. It all started as a mainframe or a Chiac then as time went on progressed to processors! We have a 286>386>486>pentium>dual pentium and so on. Access to computers started with the military, then went onto business and university. Now we have finally arrived to multiple computers and IOT's (whatever IOT is 😓😓) The size of our computers have generously changed of course, started as warehouse sizes and have now converted to portable pc's. 
Data throughput started as a wired network through cables, eventually converted to modems(14.4,28.8). And this was just until wireless networks were introduced. We have 3g, 4g , 4gLTE, many wireless networks to increase the speed of our networks.
Lastly is our memory and storage, which started as Ram. Ram stored memory that was short term, and it was stored in kilobytes. Every kilabyte was 1000 bytes, which is kind of like kilograms and grams. Another form of storage was disk based, Weinchester was the first thing introduced with 1BM based storage. It was more convenient because it had  long term memory, unlike the RAM. It came on floppy disk or hard disk, floppy stored 360k while hard stored 720k. 

In all reality it's high tech and only the smartest of the smartest will get the new technology.

Dot Com to Bomb

It was so exciting to figure out which ideas made it through the boom when we finished this segment. It all began in 1997 , yes the same year a sheep was "cloned", Hong Kong declared their independence and the Heavens Gate cult committed a mass suicide. WEIRD huh, yeah i know. This is when all companies were starting up , hey remember startup.com! i do haha 😅. Funding companies through friends and family and investments.For existing companies raising in ways that include PUBLIC OFFERING. When i think of it, i think "you get a piece, you get a piece, you get a piece" and so on. That Is basically what it is right? Selling your shares to people? Or selling your company? Hey my notes say "raising millions for your company" so i'm not that far off. By the year 2000 companies that were once making lots of dough, started to die off one by one. Some faster then the others, only the strongest could survive. EXACTLY WHY our very smart professor mr. andrew fry compared the companies to dinosaurs, well none of them actually survived but the strongest ones lasted. Owe maybe that is a sign, some of the strongest companies at the moment may or may not die off very soon 😮😮😮. The world may never know. But its sad, companies had like fame for a little while then were forced to watch it all come down. It makes me think what they could have done better, well i'm pretty sure everyone thought that at a point in time. Now companies that are no longer here have a kinda sorta fame for their downfall (tear).

Guest Speaker: Shadrach

I don’t think he mentioned his last name but he was a very sophisticated man, he looked very very young. He started to talk a lot about what he works with which was CLOUD COMPUTING !!!!! As a young human being I️ felt I️ should know even a little bit about it. BUT SADLY I️ DON'T. When I️ think cloud I️ think of storage space on my IPHONE 😂😂😂😂. Yeah i know what a shame BUT, "it is not just about being a programmer" lol. Mr. Shad, short for his name if i even spelled it right spent 15+ years in the IT world. He talked about what kind of things he used at an old company he worked for and i found the word pretty hilarious, Microfeesh which is similar to microfilm which then lead to digital scanning.<<< (woah CONVERGENCE) He started his business in 2011, which looked to me like he makes BEAUCOUP money from, such an inspiring, successful man just wonderful. I loved that he had it all set up for himself, he was thinking ahead of everyone else. His applications are all built on the same platforms, he made it easier for himself and his costumers. He does not discriminate when it comes to his costumers neither, he had an app for the disabled, marijuana industries, even housing. He builds sites starting at 4,500 dollars i do not know if its each month but that's nothing compared to what he spends a month for thousands of sites. He only spends 900-1000 dollars a month!!!!!!!! The crazy thing is he didn't even graduate high school, this shows you can do anything you put your mind too.

Startup.com

The movie was very interesting, we watched a company start from the bottom and make their way to the very top. The employees and the founders  worked their butts off to get where they got. It started out as three friends fresh out of high school and ready to take on the "real world".We had Mr. Kaleil Tuzman, Tom Herman and Chieh Cheng. one of the founders (Chieh) withdrew himself from the business when it started to come up, and actually it turns out he made the most money out of them all. As the movie progressed they start gaining more and more employees, started with 8 jumped to 50 and lastly landed at a whopping 120. We can all assume that they started making lots of money because they were able to hire so many employees. These weren't MINIMUM WAGE employees neither these were people that are educated and know technology. 

As the number of investors kept climbing relationships were becoming vulnerable. Kaleil started to become the highly favored CEO as he was invited to speak about his company in a meeting with former president Bill Clinton. I could tell that Tom was getting jealous, he started to lose a say in things that were going o in the company. The board decided that they wanted to let him go well actually they first gave him an option of paid leave. I do not know whats wrong with him i would have taken that and found me a new job while still receiving checks from govworks, but HEY that's me. So yeah he refused to take that leave and wouldn't leave until it was written that he was fired. He eventually  got the note he wanted so badly and wanted a cash settlement (which he did not get).

Moral of the story the internet stocks crashed and govworks ran out of money to pay they're employees and everything else. They had lost their investors and everything they started. It was fun while it lasted.