During this lecture Jason Nelson mostly screwed around and showed us a lot of unique and interesting websites and tools. The first page he showed us was speedtest.net. The page gave us an interesting look how long it takes, if you wanna communicate with computers all over the world.
After that he explained to us the Dot Com boom and crash. First the people were so much into it and they spent a lot of money for .com stocks, but later the internet was not yet such a profitable tool and the people didn't investigate in it any more.
Then we got an overview about archive.com, really interesting page, which want to show the visual evolution of the internet pages. It takes screenshots of all kinds of major wbsites over the years and Jason showed us the beginnings of myspace, which was first a really boring page.
Jason went on and told us more about social networking sites and then we took a look at some crazy social networking sites like 'elftown' or 'Woofer'- the anti 'Twitter' page.
Later we got more information about Google Maps and how we can use it. That was the same with sketchcast, a funny tool, that converts you and your online drawing into a video. As an example we saw a video of a lady and a hotdog.
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