by jnelson | Mar 9, 2019 | Games, Interesting Items, Resources
For children, everything, even work, is play. For adults, everything, even play, is work. So instead of just jumping in like a kid at Christmas armed only with boundless enthusiasm, for us old tired grown-ups, maybe it would be a good idea to first study the lay of...
by jnelson | Feb 6, 2019 | How the Net Works, News
Fifteen years ago, Facebook was born in a dorm room at Harvard. Unheralded and little noticed at first, Mark Zuckerberg’s baby took over the campus with surprising rapidity. First Harvard, then the Ivy League, then high schools, and by September 2006, the world....
by jnelson | Jan 12, 2019 | Games, Interesting Items
The internet is quite a boon to us older users. The net makes shopping and banking lots easy, effortlessly connects us to family and friends, provides an instant wealth of knowledge about whatever we may be interested in, and delivers wonderful entertainment. But many...
by jnelson | Nov 10, 2018 | How the Net Works, News
The Walt Disney Company is celebrating the 90th birthday of the world’s most famous rodent, Mickey Mouse(TM), with a TV special and an exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. Ever since he was first dreamed up by Uncle Walt nearly a century ago, his firm has been able...
by jnelson | Nov 1, 2018 | Events, News
The headlines say it all: First from ABC News: Fewer than half of US states have undergone federal election security reviews ahead of midterms With only a week left before the 2018 midterm elections, fewer than half of U.S. states have submitted to a Department of...
