• Life in the Information Age

• Middlebury’s Campus Network

• Web and email Preview

How to get to Middlebury’s homepage? my homepage?

How to get to your homepage and your email address?

Each of you has a homepage and an email address. They are based on your college username.

The algorithm (a recipe for doing something) used at Middlebury to create user names involves the first letter of your first name together with the first six or seven letters of your last name.

For example,

would have user name

(Midd usually uses 6 letters but will do more if it anticipates conflicts. See the directory).

Once username is known, your email address and homepage address are completely determined.

Each of the past three centuries has been dominated by technology.

• 18th: Mechanical Systems and the Industrial Revolution

• 19th Steam Engine

• 20th Electricity, Atom, Information

radio and TV

birth/ unprecedented growth of computer industry

communication satellites

eCommerce/eBusiness

What’s happening online?

• Shopping

• Loans

• Job Recruiting

• Applying to College

• News and Sports

• Travel

• Entertainment

• Art

• Education

• Electronic Books

• Medical Diagnosis

• Music

Coming Soon: Movie servers?

Differences between all kinds of data are quickly disappearing.

Everything is digital.

• text

• voice

• pictures

• music

• video

• art

Hard to keep up with rapid changes and volume of data.

Pace of Life has changed and planet has shrunk

There is a major difference between how you get and deal with information and how your parents did the same thing when they were your age.

There will probably be at least as great change between you and your children!