How to stop bad things from happening.

Here's the deal with this.

1. Stay away from bad sites. Be safe or be sorry and be smart for pete's sake.

2. Use a safe browser, google chrome is great. Really really good.

3. Use Google plus, they have a thing to make sure your info doesnt spill out. Swag.

4. Don't be a dingus, make sure you're using appropriate sites.

phishing for complements.

Here's the truth, there are a lot of crappy people that want your personal information. They use two ways for this. Phishing and Malware. Phishing is when they make fake sites to lure you into putting in your information. They say "heyo, Ima your banka, puta your info-a in!" and yes, they have fake Italian accents. Malware are viruses that come in and eat your information and bring it back to the people that made the virus.

Ive got a feeling somebody's watching me

So, you don't want everyone in the world to know all of your information. Understandable and completely acceptable. There's  something you can do about it! (hooray!) It's called security settings. Remember the nifty and tasty cookies in the last blog post, well they can steal all of your  valuable information.
security programs and the incognito mode on google chrome will delete all cookies and history, in case you dont want people to see what you've been looking at! Be good kids!

C is for Cookie, thats good enough for me

Cookies track where you go on the website and track what6 you like and what you dont and what you tend to steer to. It also makes the shopping cart work. But what is a cookie well, a cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It contains information about your visit that you may want the site to remember, like your preferred language and other settings. The browser stores this data and pulls it out the next time you visit the site to make the next trip easier and more personalized. If you visit

a movie website and indicate that you’re most interested in comedies, for instance, the cookies sent by the website can remember this so you may see comedies displayed at the start of your next visit. Neato.

N'Sync

Oh no! A big 'ol truck came and smashed your laptop! Good thing you save everything to the could and you also sync all of your tabs, bookmarks and other web apps (or wapps)! So good for you you can log in to your cloud or browser and all your stuff will be there! It also syncs to your phone! hooray!

Thing 8: flash update required.

Html got ya down? Want a way to watch movies and play games? Well you can download flash plug ins to make these things work. Wow! Now you can browse safely and in style to use great websites and play fun games! More club penguin now! Plug it in and watch it go!

Thing 7

Thing seven talks about web browsers. You need to update all the time! Old web browsers suck and they can't hold new web apps and they can leak your information. That would be the worst. Do you want to use google maps but dont have the CSS to run it? Sucks, looks like you have to use Map quest (yuck.) So this is very important. if you dont upgrade you're holding everyone else back.

Thing 6 in the THE THIRD DIMENTION!!!

No more of this 2D nonsense, now because of faster broadband internet speed, we can see things in the internet in three glorious dimensions. Shading so real you could reach out and grab it. Why this was so unattainable before is because the amout of data needed was INSANE! The networks couldn't handle it. But now, we have faster bigger information freeways and the days of bad graphics and not realistic shading are over. The internet has won again.

th-tml 5

Holy Nyan Cat Batman! No video? Well before HTML 5 you had to add video plug ins and it was super duper hard to watch anything! But we want it and we want it right now; so the <video> tag was invented. Now with <video>, we can watch videos of Jonas laughing or a dog on a skateboard or Bill Nye fight a hologram of Carl Sagan. It's the best thing that's happened to the internet since Dr. Who gifs.

OMG CSS HTML LOL: THING 4

The stuff that makes this all work is the PROGRAMMING. The code used to do this is called HTML, hyper text markup language, this makes you see what I see when we get on. Neato stuff like Java script makes the whole thing run faster and more smoothly as we go through pages. It makes it so we can run multiple things at the same time with out reloading the page. So much easier. CSS makes the whole thing look pretty, smoother, better transitions and so on. We are all glad that these things have come to pass and we're not stuck with the internet of the 90's. Amen.

Thingy 3

So, here we are, thing three. Web Apps. Have you ever heard the phrase "there's an app for that"? Well it's true! Social media to finding your way to the party and back, web apps are right there for you. No downloading harmful viruses, just using the wonderful worldwide web. You can get anything of yours from anywhere just by logging in. Everything updates automatically and makes everyone happy all the time. Aren't web apps amazing?

THING 2

Ok, thing two. Dos, deux, II, however you want to say it, it's a little thing called Cloud  computing, thats where all your stuff is saved, not in a cloud, but on an external giant server somewhere across the internet ocean. This makes it so you can access all your files from any computer that connects to the cloud. NEAT! You can shoot a few rounds into your computer and run over it with a steam roller, pick up your friends computer, log into the cloud and then pick up where you left off on your English paper.

Thing One

This, yonder first post, is about the first chapter of a small book produced by Google. It says, the internet is not just a magical force that runs on pixie dust, but instead is made up of cables that run under towns and through houses and into our computers! Info is sent in chunks called packets like water or sewage through a pipe. The packets are sent through until they plop onto your screen. Now lets talk about bandwidth, remember the pipe? If there is too much stuff in the pipe, it slows down, its like a crowded hall. If there are a lot of people, you can't go anywhere fast, but if the halls are empty, you can run. So behold, the internet.