KC's Adventure through HIST 390

In this weeks lecture we went over briefly copyright and that fact that we used documents before the 1928 copyright was enforced. This makes it somewhat easier to use information that we find on our soldier. One website I was able to find some information on my soldier was made by the NY State Military Museum. The site gives a brief history of the 136th Infantry Regiment and has links to the unit roster, battles they fought in and newspaper clippings with the regiment mentioned. This week we were also introduced to OCR on Google Drive. I would have to say that the text that I had translated was about 95% accurate so it would definitely be easier to go through and make minor corrections rather then typing the whole text up.

This weeks class was canceled due to the snowstorm.

In class this week we received the files of the soldiers we are going to be working on for the rest of the semester for our project. I received Pvt Morris Coats from Co A of the 136th New York. He spent most of his life in Wirt, New York where he was married to Adeline Smith and had three children, 2 boys and a daughter. He enlisted at the age of 36 and finished out his 3 year commitment even though he was injured in the Battle of Peach Tree Creek where he suffered slight damage to his arm and chin. He continued his occupation as a farmer up until the final year of his life when he died in March of 1911. I look forward to learning more about where Pvt Coats ventured in his three years of service.

We began the class by talking about the differences between HTML and XML. When someone looks at a webpage they don’t know all the code that is used to set it up. I for one have taken a class on HTML and have had to create my own webpage, so I have a little understanding on all the code used to create something as simple as a text box within a web page.

Following that we focused more on the history aspect of the course and looked into how historians view history. I historian looking at a period in time will view things differently then those in other academic fields, for example they have no problem with a persons bias and don’t make generalizations about the past. As a class we then began to discuss the advantages and disadvantages that the advancements in technology have had on history. For example, a document could be scanned onto the internet like the letter we looked at in class which can now be viewed by people all over the world making that particular piece of history very accessible. At the same time, some of these works are being given to databases that can be costly to sign up to in order to view some of these pieces of history.

Key Concepts:

• Time Sharing
• Packet Switching
• Batch Processing
• ARPANEt->RAND->NPL->CYCLADES = formation of the Internet
• TCP-IP Protocol
• Servers
• ISPs
• DARPA
• NCP -> TCP
• IMP subnet

When I Google myself the first links that pop up are to my Facebook and Twitter page. After a it shows a few pictures of myself it continues with links to my YouTube videos then to articles that I was named in when I was participating in College and High School Athletics.