After that, I used my favorite search engines to find information
on Area 51 (top secret Air Force facility) and of course the information
that I came up with was all speculative and based on opinions
like mine. But there were some interesting photos which I'm sure
that anyone interested in UFO's would already be familiar with,
but for those not, they are supposed photos of aliens recovered
from a "crash of a UFO" in near Roswell New Mexico,
somewhere around 1947. I'm still a little skeptical about the
whole Roswell business, a lot of questions. In any event, this
information is just to show you that you really can find information
about almost anything you want to on the Internet.
I looked one evening for some information relating to Astronomy, another of my interests, and found some wonderful pictures of various planets, and solar systems taken by the Hubble telescope and other sources, beautiful pictures. I can't really imagine not taking advantage of what the Internet can offer, especially to students. The whole universe is almost at their fingertips!
It won't take the place of doing research in other ways, such
as looking up information in books, at least not completely yet,
but is a great supplement to other educational resources. I wish
I had access when I was in school.
I then ventured into the IRC or Inter Relay Chat area, where I
began "chatting" with several other people at the same
time, mostly it was a lot of nonsense coming from some very immature
individuals using pretty foul language, a potential source of
problems for some people with younger children. I am not bothered
by it, so I hung in there and talked (when I say talked, I mean
typed) to someone in Pennsylvania for a few minutes, mostly comparing
the weather there and here, it's cooler there.
There was the inevitable call for information checks, these consist
mostly of age/sex/location, some people are meeting each other
on the net and chatting regularly, which can be a good thing as
long as you are careful only to give as much information about
yourself as you feel comfortable giving. There are a lot of people
of all ages and backgrounds out there and some not so nice people
out there too, just like in any other aspect of life, so have
fun but be careful.
I invite you once again to check out my web page, there are some
sites on the "fun page" section that I think are pretty
interesting, such as the SciFiChannel, the Discovery Channel,
and others. Guess I better go do some work around the house or
else! Take care and see you later.
Donald Daugherty
daugh@connecti.com
URL;http://www.connecti.com/~daugh
Donald Daugherty is a member of the Seguin Internet Club and a
regular contributor to the Internet Beat column.
For its September 14 meeting, the Seguin Internet Club needs a
meeting facility with a phone line available for accessing the
Internet from 10 am to 1 pm.; the phone line can be a metro number
or a local number; the facility would be for about thirty members.
Once again, the meeting will be an unstructured opportunity for
members (young students, home and commercial users), to exchange
information, discuss problems and ask or answer questions from
fellow members.
Members are asked to share helpful hints and favorite sites. Hopefully,
with the online capability, the answer to questions can be demonstrated
readily on-line.
Last Thursday, Matt McDaniel offered to club members, a structured
on-line demonstration of IRC Internet Relay Chat at Century 21
D & D.
To offer ideas for the club or the column, contact Gloria Rivera,
303-4764, riverag@connecti.com; or Jerry Weers, 303-0818, weersjt@texas.net;
or Alton Hierholzer, 303-9260, altonh@connecti.com
Next week: Internet questions answered.