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BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LISTŪ FOR THE CLASS OF 2011

Posted by tom | Aug 27, 2007

Not only does school open for Ellen and Hayley at Donegal Springs Elementary, but on many colleges and university across the country a new academic year begins.  How in touch are you with new generation of collegians?  Browse to BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST® FOR THE CLASS OF 2011. For a taste of what those born in 1989 understand the world, how about

1. What Berlin Wall?
2. Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
3. They have grown up with bottled water.
53. Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.

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    The World Wide Web? In 1989? Sure, if you had a computer that could interface directly with the mind of Tim Berners-Lee. The first website didn't go live until 1991.

    Posted by Andy, Aug 28 2007, 10:03

    Yes . . . let me try to remember, I started dial-up AOL just after Theresa and I were married. We were still students at Grove City College which places our regular web access to the spring of 1996. We had a VAX email system on campus, some progressives used the system (like Toby) but that didn't give you web access. Theresa had a seminar on how to use the web in the classroom, but it didn't make any sense to her ;-0

    What an upgrade to step onto CMU's campus as a volunteer in spring '96, my email box started to fill rapidly not just w/campus email but also with supervisor communication. But again, I largely used email and not the web. I was most probably not a regular web user until sometime in the late 90's. How could one live w/o it ;-) Now it is has become 'required' for a number of forms of communication and the accessing of resources (e.g., bye-bye to paper based organizational handbooks and forms).

    Posted by Tom, Aug 28 2007, 10:20
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