Finding Health Information on the Web

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History of the Internet
The early electronic digital computers of the 1950's were huge, hot (they used thousands of vacuum tubes), and  mostly experimental, monster machines. They were produced in very limited quantities by companies such as UNIVAC, Burroughs, and of course, IBM. Computers were sold to the military, large universities, and research centers, as well as major commercial companies. They were used to solve complex mathematical computations, as well as for customer database manipulation and storage.

Computer History Timeline
Even with the introduction of transistors in the early 1960's and the mass production of computers, the machines still took up an entire floor of a building, and needed special cooling and environmental control.  Although they were programmable, computers did not generally talk to each other.  Programs and data were stored, first on punched paper tape, then on punched paper cards, and later on magnetic tape.  Transfer of data required physically traveling to a distant machine, with the storage media in hand.

IBM 360

Developments in computer communications continued through the 1980's and well into the 1990's before a commercial Internet became viable.

Vintage Science Fiction
Time Stalkers ( The future of IBM PC applications)
Colossus The Forbin Project (Computers talk to each other)

 In the meantime, with the advent of the microprocessor, computers went from million dollar, room- sized behemoths, to relatively inexpensive, desktop home appliances.
Vintage Personal Computers

Over the past twenty years, we have been witness to an incredible computer revolution and technology explosion. Now with smart phone and tablets, the world of information is literally, at our fingertips.

Vintage Science Fiction
See: "Man From U.N.C.L.E"'or any StarTrek episode

How Big is the Internet
 Estimated the size at roughly 5 millionterabytes of data. That’s over 5 billion gigabytes of data, or 5 trillion megabytes.
Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes of that, or .004% of the total size.
There are thought to be some 155 million websites on the Internet

Browsers- live inside the computer
Internet Explorer- Microsoft - part of Windows
Firefox- Mozilla
Chrome- Google
Safari- Apple

Purpose-
Access the Internet
Organize Favorites (Bookmarks)
Handle multiple sites
Input text, audio, video in a multitude of file formats

Search Engines- live on the Web
Google
Bing
Yahoo
Wikipedia

Purpose-
To index and quickly find the information you need based on keywords
Also can find photos and videos

Big Commercial Medical Sites

http://www.webmd.com/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/
http://www.nih.gov/
Johns Hopkins
http://www.livestrong.com/

Individual Sites

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ProstateCancerSupport/
http://askdrmyers.wordpress.com/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/viagra.htm
http://translate.google.com/#
http://www.howjsay.com/
http://fibrofeedback.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxUJ7qTJRi8&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.wilddivine.com/

A little help please-  Sometimes we need a little help with language translation and pronunciation.
Google Translation
How Do you Say?

3D Animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Exd86dbT68
http://www.visiblebody.com/start
Google Body