class: left, middle ## Let's start at 12:10PM - Take a moment to review the **Week 4** folder - Recorded session to be made available on YouTube (unlisted) - Please prioritize **Reading Group Topic Signup** if you haven't #### View online at https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w4 --- class: left, middle ## Let's get started ... --- class: left, middle, title ## The Virtual Organization #### PC 8005 - School of Professional Communication - Week 4 https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w4 --- class: left, middle ## Goals #### Technical Exercise #2 - Designing a basic database - Building a simple user interface - Bridging database and user interface - Lessons in precision: variables and functions #### Basis of all content management solutions --- class: left, middle ### Reminder: Upcoming deadlines - **End of next week**: Assignment #1 - Problem / Solution Pitch - **Week 6** (after reading week): Research Reading Group --- class: left, middle ## Research Reading Group #### Asynchronous seminar - Choose an emerging technology, tell us about it - 10 to 15 minutes (recording only) - Presentation recording available to all students by default #### Potential structure - Overview - Challenges in adoption - Potential applications - Future opportunities #### Sign up via D2L or email - Brief feedback with potential suggestions - Approved topic list and assignment details on D2L #### Tentative deadline: before start of Week 6 session --- class: right, middle ## Any questions? Moving onto the this week's content ... --- class: left, middle ## Today's agenda - **From D&D to AIM** - From freeware to streaming video - Computer virus and the Y2K bug --- class: center, middle ## Blade Runner
#### Iconic scene with correspondence chess --- class: center, middle ## Correspondence chess
#### "Online gaming" by postal service --- class: center, middle ## Dungeons & Dragons
#### Original role playing experience --- class: center, middle ## Time-sharing computers
#### Multiple users in the same computer --- class: center, middle ## Text adventure games
#### Shared between university networks --- class: center, middle ## MUD: Multi User Dungeon
#### Ability to chat --- class: center, middle ## Private BBS
#### Reddit before Reddit --- class: center, middle ## Big in Europe and Asia
#### French Minitel lasts until 2012 --- class: center, middle ## CompuServe
#### Limited by text interface, soon replaced by ... --- class: center, middle ## America On-Line
#### Grows as the largest online service --- class: center, middle ## Graphical User Interface
#### Buttons, images, and windows --- class: center, middle ## "Play-by-email"
#### True online gaming experience --- class: center, middle ## Floppy disks and CD Roms
#### Bundled in every imaginable product --- class: center, middle ## Discussion with Microsoft
#### Windows + AOL bundled together --- class: center, middle ## Rise of the Web
#### Walled garden slowly breaking apart --- class: center, middle ## Departure by Microsoft
#### Embrace of Internet Explorer and rise of MSN --- class: center, middle ## Introduction of AIM
#### Originally a part of AOL client --- class: center, middle ## Popularity peaks
#### Coinciding with P2P file sharing --- class: center, middle ## Goes offline in 2017
#### Private instant messaging becomes mainstay --- class: left, middle ## Today's agenda - From D&D to AIM - **From freeware to streaming video** - Computer virus and the Y2K bug --- class: center, middle ## DooM (1993)
#### Bringing down university networks --- class: center, middle ## Shareware
#### Free software designed to promote full versions --- class: center, middle ## Software in the 90s
#### Big box packages at retailers --- class: center, middle ## BBS file uploads
#### Server-to-many; legal repurcussions --- class: center, middle ## Personal file sharing
#### One-on-one file sharing --- class: center, middle ## Peer-to-peer
#### Anonymous network of file sharers --- class: center, middle ## Introduction of MP3
#### High compression, high quality audio --- class: center, middle ## Napster
#### Legendary music sharing platform --- class: center, middle ## iPod and iTunes
#### Convincing record companies to sell individual songs --- class: center, middle ## Video compression tech
#### Paranoid film companies --- class: center, middle ## Piracy, it's a crime
#### Campaign / tech against video sharing --- class: center, middle ## "Generation of criminals"
#### Prosecution of children and youths --- class: center, middle ## Creative Commons
#### Lawrence Lessig challenging the copyright system --- class: center, middle ## Streaming music
#### Taking cues from radio --- class: center, middle ## Video streaming
#### Fueled by success of YouTube --- class: center, middle ## Software and the cloud
#### Adobe, Microsoft, Google --- class: center, middle ## Streamable software
#### Gaming cloud by Microsoft and Google --- class: left, middle ## Today's agenda - From D&D to AIM - From freeware to streaming video - **Computer virus and the Y2K bug** --- class: center, middle ## Strange software
#### Copies itself throughout the system, displays strange message --- class: center, middle ## Similar attributes as virus
#### "Incubation" period, ability to clone --- class: center, middle ## Rise of antivirus software
#### Norton, McAfee, etc. --- class: center, middle ## Trojan horse spyware
#### Masquerading as something else --- class: center, middle ## Bigger damage
#### Ability to break whole systems --- class: center, middle ## Ransomware
#### Keeping files hostage, paid by bitcoin --- class: center, middle ## Corporate cases
#### Garmin pays $10 million to regain access --- class: center, middle ## Y2K Apocalypse
#### 2000-01-01 = 1900-01-01? --- class: center, middle ## Potential inconvenience
#### 100k USD fine for late VHS returns --- class: center, middle ## Infrastructure failures
#### Banks, electrical grid, weapons systems, etc. --- class: center, middle ## Human paranoia
#### New millenium and the rapture --- class: center, middle ## Y2K-proof products
#### Marketing effort --- class: center, middle ## Nothing happens at midnight
#### Probably due to various preventative measures --- class: center, middle ## Wait for 2038
#### More algorithmic "debt" weighing down upon us --- class: left, middle ## Takeaways - Online connnectivity enhanced by speed, variety, and fidelity - Consumers are adapting to digital-only content - Digital vulnerabilities are very much driven by human flaws --- class: left, middle ### Mandatory tasks for this week #### Listed in order of priority - Production work on **Assignment #1** - Preliminary work on **Research Reading Group** - Course readings #### More details available on D2L --- class: left, middle ### Things to expect next week - Economics and ethics - Elaboration: Reading Group requirements --- class: left, middle, title ## The Virtual Organization #### PC 8005 - School of Professional Communication - Week 4 https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w4