E-ITSPEA Blog

Until the 21st century, people got most of the information from other people or text sources, for example encyclopedias. But everything has changed after invention of Wikipedia in 2001. Hard to imagine modern life without using Wikipedia, because it is most easy way to find information. Originally, Wikipedia was created as supplement to the free Nupedia encyclopedia, written by experts as an additional source of draft articles and ideas. But Wikipedia quickly bypassed Nupedia, becoming a big international project. Today the English Wikipedia contains over 6,000,000 articles , it is also one of the most popular websites in the world. The main advantage and at the same time biggest drawback of Wikipedia, is the fact that anyone can edit any article. Wikipedia can be free because of it, because you don't have to spend a lot of money to hire editors, who would check articles. Also thanks to the large number of editors, information about anything appears very quickly. But that means, th...

 Second Week Task. Technology of the past that has come down to our days ( and one that is not ) 1. Email Email is one of the communication methods that appeared almost 50 years ago and remains relevant to this day. We can say that email was invented in 1965, when   when the staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Noel Morris and Tom Van Vleck wrote a mail program for the CTSS. But modern electronic mail was invented in 1971. The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who was working on ARPNET (which is the prototype of the modern internet). The letter was very similar to modern one, using the @ symbol to denote the recipient's address. Today almost everyone has an e-mail ( sometimes a person has more than one mail ). Mail has become not only a method of communication, but also a confirmation of a digital identity. This became a necessity, since in order to create an account on almost any site, you will need an email to confirm your registration. It s...

1.  Cicret Bracelet   In 2014, Cicret announced a device that used a projector to display an image on the inside of the arm. This invention seemed so innovative that it swept the Internet with a huge noise. Many news sites were releasing news that Cicret would “turn your hand into a full-fledged tablet.” After all this hype, it was no surprise that Cicret raised massive amounts of money through its crowdfunding company  Go Fund Me. After the initial excitement passed, people starts to asking questions. How does this bracelet work? When will it go on sale? Is it even possible to make such gadget? Cicret was silent for a long time, until the famous debunker Captain Disillusion released a video on his channel about the fact that at the moment it is impossible to make a Cicret Bracelet.   After the revealing video came out, Cicret released a video with a prototype that obviously wasn't look like what they had originally promised, which caused massive discontent among ...