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The project cover includes representations of how sign styles changed over time (not as direct-descendant-of).<\/em><\/p>\nCreated: July 19, 1996 at 3:54 PM<\/em><\/p>\n 1. What was your goal?<\/strong> 2. How did you go about working towards your goal?<\/strong> 3. What were the most important things you learned as you worked towards your goal?<\/strong> 4. What ideas or plans do you have for the future based on what you have learned or discovered?<\/strong> What homepage would that be, 1996 self? <\/em> Did you ever put that information on the Internet? For comparison of the time:<\/p>\n “News attracts most internet users,”<\/a> Pew Research Center, December 16, 1996<\/strong> Consider that what you see above is not that far off from being closer to the moon landing than the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the 20th anniversary of Iowa Highway Ends and the 3000th post on this blog are converging, it’s convenient to look back a quarter-century… The project cover includes representations of how sign styles changed over time (not as direct-descendant-of). Created: … Continue reading
\nMy goal was to learn the history of Iowa’s roads and highways by county fair. [Ambitious much? \u2014 Ed.]<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMost of my information was from maps of Iowa and the Midwest. I got the maps from my house and my grandma’s house. I used a black-and-white copying machine first, and then later replaced those copies with a color scanner. I manipulated some of those images with Ofoto, the program used when scanning the images, and ColorIt!, a painting program. I then brought some of the images into the ClarisWorks (still another program) drawing section, and I added a key to them. My paper that accompanies the maps was written with ClarisWorks’ word processing section.<\/p>\n
\n[list of things I learned about Iowa highways omitted]<\/p>\n
\nI will put this information on the Internet with my homepage (computer project) and I will probably do some more research.<\/p>\n
\nThis one, sort of, from the short time frame that making one was recognized as impressive (via PageSpinner):<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homepage96.png\")
\n[Remember Netscape? Remember Telnet? Remember clip art?]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Oh, some of it, eventually, starting about five years after both my Self-Determined and Computer projects made State Fair.<\/p>\n
\nThe biggest and perhaps most significant change over the last year is the increased use of the World Wide Web. Nearly three-out-of-four (73%) report having used the Web, compared to only 21% in 1995. Web use appears to be frequent: 51% said they used the Web either yesterday or sometime in the past week vs. 12% last year.<\/em><\/p>\n