Epic 2015

“It is the best of times, it is the worst of times” opening line is very catchy and gave me chills.  It is very true that we have access to an incredible amount of information right here on our fingertips.  We can find a real picture of you, your family, the house you live in, your parents and siblings, your marriage records, your job, your buying habits and so on.  There is an online trial of everything on the web and some of these trail records cannot be changed.

This video talks about how technology has crept up so fast on us and how our privacy has been greatly compromised because of it.  This was a long assignment because we had to check a lot of facts.  Even though I did my best, I am not very sure about the validity of the fact checking because Wikipedia was the primary research source.   Here are some of the things I found to be accurate. 

-Tim Burton-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.  
-Amazon was founded in 1994
-Google was founded in 1998
- Blogger was launched in 1999
- Friendster was founded in 2002
- Google News beta version was launched in September.

- Picasa was created in 2002.
- Google  started Gmail service in 2004.

The more accurate statement is that Microsoft was not born in 2007 but it was born in 1975.  Google news was launched in 2002 AND released officially in January 2006.