Firefox!!!!!

So I called the Programming God
Actually I instant messaged him - he was in a meeting.
I called later.
He sent me to Firefox.
MOZILLA!!!!!

In the mid 1990s, when the "internet" was born,
I had grabbed on with both hands.
Mosaic was the browser for HTML 1.0.
I read the spec for HTML (1.0, 2.0 and 4.0).
I LOVED it.
I "saw" eLearning right then!
I began to write pages - heavily interlinked like people think - and brought up ASIC design manuals (some 800 pages) inside AMCC (internal website).
I was a master of the concept,
Acquired over the years while waiting for the world to catch up to me.
I had read everything I could get my hands on on the subject of computer-based instruction, computer-assisted instruction,
Which is --- ta da --- eLearning.
The public couldn't handle the word "computer" back then.

I had "seen" eLearning in the 1970s when a grad student at UCLA with the ARPA net roaming around.
I did file transfer.
We did early forms of email.
It was limited to us geeks.
I wrote a term paper in grad school and said how all student information would be on-line and portable so you could move from state to state and still take the same subjects, also hosted by the computers.

I had moved to Idaho Falls for 3 months from Connecticut, Norwich Free Academy Scientific College Preparatory program in 1959 while in high school.
I had been handed 20 hours a week of study hall because they could not meet my program.
I read the complete works of Shakespeare.

So I wrote a term paper years later that addressed the problem I had faced years earlier and nearly flunked!
Oh no, they said. Computers will never do that!
Little did they know that I "saw" computers doing exactly that!

A year or so later, and another professor sat down one day and wrote "cells" [pages] and their interlinks for everything you could possibly consider about logic minimization.
He "saw" this coming too.
I have that monograph.
True computer-based instruction.

And now everyone knows that computers can do that.
You can take classes hosted anywhere in the world from your laptop or desktop over dial-up, DSL, cable, T1 line.
I would have liked that in high school.
While zoning out in study hall.

I have pursued eLearning from the 1970s to the 1995 eLearning class I did for Synopsys on Advanced Chip Synthesis, with a version of eLearning for AMCC and SIARC CBA along the way.
If it is anything technical, I can conceptually "see" it whether I am trained in that subject or not.
I see flows, interconnections - which lend themselves to conversion to eLearning.
I do not try to explain.
I simply "get" things, acquire vocabulary and end up and expert in three months or less.

We now have server-based K-12 accredited classes for those who cannot get to a school (Think Alaska).
Ha!
I was right!

Back to the browser problem ---
The people who did Netscape used Mozilla as a logo - I have the stuffed toy.
I loved Netscape in its heyday.
I never liked Internet Explorer - and now it is made for the Mac no longer.
I retired Netscape for Safari.
Now here is Firefox from Mozilla!
I loaded it.
I booted it.
The Programming God taught me a trick I dropped someplace along the way about shift-reload and voila - all the pages load!
Except the home page on CNN which the Programming God says has been having trouble for some time.

Now I am happy.

Now we need to discuss eBooks in the classroom.
Because I "see" that too.
I have seen that for sometime.
It is starting to percolate about the fringes.
It's coming.
Trust me.