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Bluestreak Volume 33, Issue 3, October 30, 2015

Internet Issue

The Official Publication of the Andover High Student Body

The Trojan Bluestreak Table of Contents

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Bluestreak Staff

4 - History of the Internet 6 - Internet in the classroom 11 - Staying connected overseas 14 - Editorial 16-17 Adult content accessibility 18 - Infographic 20 - Online gaming 23 - YouTube tutorials 25 - Twitter trends 28 - Internet top 5’s Addy Maples Editor-in-Chief Megan Curry Managing Editor Madi Hearne Design Editor Elizabeth Hartley News Editor Abby Beaver Pop Culture Editor Emma Starks Social Media Editor Stuart Jenkins Web Editor Elise Lindemann Photo Editor Grace Ball Sports Editor Emily Stybr Feature Editor Nicholas Ramirez In-depth Editor Maddy Bishop Fun Editor Rebekah Martin Columnist

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Staffers Sophie Braynock Daryan Davis Ashley Dorf Carrie Friend Hayley Jones Izabelle Kirkendoll Savitri Lazarus Trevor Newton Ashley Shandy Kamilla Sims Liana Tauke

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Internet Issue Letter from the Editor In past years, The Bluestreak’s third issue has been a “special edition” issue, and this year we have decided to continue the tradition and create an issue specifically focusing on the Internet. Our generation has grown up in the age of technology; we are able to find any kind of information just by clicking a button or tapping a screen. Take a look around the school and you will see a majority of kids with a smartphone in their hands, playing games, or browsing social media.

Walk around a classroom and you will see how much the Internet affects us and the way the education system has drastically changed over the years. Te evolution of technology has changed the way students learn new concepts and create new ideas.

Whether you think the rise of the Internet has affected us negatively or positively, it is not something easily ignored. The Internet is an amazing and vastly unknown network. As a staff, we have created an issue all about the Internet and the ways it has affected communities and people’s lives.

Sincerely,

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the evolution of

Google Google

A look into how Google has changed over the years Imagining a world without Google is nearly impossible.

Most of us grew up with it always being there.

Google is the most popular search engine throughout the world. Billions of people access it everyday.

Google has many capabilities that people use on a daily basis. You can search anything you want, look at different pictures, get directions or even look at news.

In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford in their early twenties. They began to collaborate on a search engine originally named BackRub. They agreed that the name took up too much bandwidth and renamed it Google.

Google.com was officially registered on Sept. 15, 1997. In April 1998 Larry created the first Google Friends Newsletter to inform the supporters of Google about company news.

The company was attending the Burning Man festival in Nevada and created their first Google doodle as the famous man. They wanted people to know where the crew would be.

They then filed for incorporation in California on Sept. 4, 1998. The men decided to open a bank account in the company’s name and deposit a one hundred thousand dollar check written to them by Andy Bechtolsheim.

In 2000, Larry and Sergey announced MentalPlex. MentalPlex was supposedly Google’s ability to read your mind as you research your results. After word spread about it they admit-

ted this was an April 1st hoax.

Google won its first Webby Award in May of 2000. That same month, they released ten different languages of Google.

Google’s first international doodle was created to celebrate Bastille Day in France in 2001.

One of the most frequently used features, Google Images, was created in July 2001. First launched with over two hundred fifty million pictures, it now has even more.

Google News launched with over four thousand different resources in Sept. 2002. You can search for different news articles from any time.

Froogle, now known as Google Shopping, also launched in 2002. This feature allows you to shop for different things without leaving Google.com.

The years 2001-2004 were the most successful in creating features that we still use today. Gmail is one of the most successful with more than 425 million users today. It was first created as invite only.

Google moved to Googleplex in Mountain View, California in Mar. 2004. They introduced Google Local, which lists local businesses, maps and directions. It later became Google Maps.

-ashleySHANDY

Google is hosting its seventh annual Google 4 Doodle© competition. The competition is open to all K-12 residents of the 50 United States and territories. Applicants are required to submit their own doodle, using the letters g-o-o-g-l-e, that reflects themselves, and a 50-word statement. Entries can be submitted electronically or by paper by Dec. 7, 2015. Public voting will take place in February 2016 to aide celebrities like Stephen Curry and Julie Bowen in selecting a national winner. The national winner will recieve a 30-thousand-dollar college scholarship, a 50-thousand-dollar Google education for their school, a Chromebook, an Android tablet, their doodle displayed on the Google homepage and many other appealing prizes.

Submit your doodle to

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The history of the internet Brief overview of the Internet’s emergence as social structure In todays age, the Internet is very accessible. The knowledge of the world is now at users’ fingertips thanks to advancements in technology over the last few decades. Most people in America use the Internet every day but have no knowledge on how the Internet started or how it works.

In Aug. 1962, the first recorded social interactions were of J.C.R Lickliders idea of “Galactic Networking.” Licklider envisioned a group of computers that were all interconnected throughout the world where people all over the world could quickly access data and programs.

In 1966, Lawrence Roberts put together his plan about the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) and was published in 1967. Roberts presented the plan at a conference where two other groups had very similar ideas.

Toward the end of 1969, there were four host computers that were connected to the ARPANET. The groundwork for the Internet was set in motion.

In Oct. 1972 the first public display of ARPANET was at the International Computer Communication Conference. Over time ARPANET grew into the Internet where there would be multiple independent networks using the ARPANET as the groundwork.

The Internet is the largest network in the world. A network

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is a group of two or more computers linked together. There are two types of networks, Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN). A LAN is a network of two or more computers in a relatively close area. A WAN is two or more LANs that are farther apart and are connected through telephone lines or radio waves.

Software is a program that serves computers in a network by running actions and storing information. A computer is a client that runs familiar software and requests information from the server.

Contrary to popular belief, the terms Internet and World Wide Web are not the same thing. The Internet is the physical network of computers all around the world. The World Wide Web is a virtual network of websites connected by hyperlinks. Websites are stored on servers on the Internet. Therefore, the World Wide Web is apart of the Internet.

The Internet is constantly evolving. In the early years of the Internet it was used primarily to find information and connect sites together for research. Over time, the Internet has advanced the ways of processing and accessing information and connecting people and content. In 2012, over one-third of the world’s population were Internet users.

-maddyBISHOP

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Goodbye encyclopedias, hello wikipedia Internet altered research for generations to come Until 25 years ago, the education system was heavily reliant on books. Back then, if an English teacher assigned an essay over the works of Shakespeare, students were guaranteed to spend a couple hours at their local library.

There was no such thing as Sparknotes or Wikipedia. Instead, all of the information would be found throughout encyclopedias and textbooks. Thankfully, in 1991 the National Science Foundation (NSF) allowed the first commercial use of the Internet allowing a slow shift to Internet-based research over the years.

With many different platforms available, there is something for everyone on the web. Whether they prefer Bing to Google, or Safari over Firefox, there is no denying the aid the Internet offers to students.

The Internet allows access to over 100 million different websites and counting. Almost anything can be found with just the click of a button. People went from spending hours scouring through textbooks to finding the same information in a matter of seconds.

Society is obsessed with ease-of-access; the easier and quicker the better. Now, with the development of smart phones all the knowledge people seek is waiting at their fingertips.

Late nights are no longer spent with history textbooks but rather with countless tabs open to web pages. Websites like Wikipedia, founded in 2001, revolutionized the way we collect our research. Unless it is required in the rubric, most students will avoid using a book source for their papers. The more desirable

option nowadays is to simply use one of the many search engines to find the answer desired.

However, with all the pros that come along with the Internet, there are also some cons. An argument could easily be drawn over the issue of laziness installed in our current generation. Research projects are no longer weeklong affairs. They can be whipped out in one night and a couple cans of Red Bull. SparkNotes, a student resource, provides in depth summaries and analysis over any book you name. Many students use SparkNotes as their fallback for not completing an assignment due to procrastination.

Another negative example of how the Internet has impacted education is the rising cases of plagiarism. Plagiarism is not a new issue; it has been around for centuries. With digital copies available of most literary works, plagiarism amongst students is a growing issue and can easily be detected--thanks to the Internet-by teachers. Although some negative aspects of the Internet affect society and the education system today, it is still the leading source for research and continues to reform how students access information.

From searching through informative websites, to typing out last-minute papers, the Internet has proven an essential resource for the millennial generation. As students cycle through high school, technology improves opportunities endlessly for future generations.

-lianaTAUKE

While students previously had to go to public libraries and use encyclopedias to access mass amounts of information, they can now use computers and, in more recent years, smartphones and tablets to accomplish the same goal.

Photos by Elise Lindemann

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Internet in classrooms From textbooks to Chromebooks

Historians will note Jun. 15, 2011 as a turning point in classroom technology advances. It was the date the Chromebook was launched by Samsung and Acer Inc. (Google would enter the picture in 2013.)

The Chromebooks were immediately a hit. As of 2012, schools were their primary consumers. Affordable, fast, and small, they made for the perfect working laptop.

“Everything’s in Google Docs so I can do my homework in my free time without having to go to a teacher” junior Levi Mathis said.

Defined as any laptop running Chrome OS as its operating system, Chromebooks were prominent in unmasking the mystery known as the cloud.

“It’s nice not to have to save everything to the hard drive, instead you can pull it up anywhere with Internet,” freshman Journey Smith said.

According to cnn.com, the Cloud simply refers to software that runs on the Internet rather than a computer. Amazon, Netflix, and Google Drive are examples of programs that run in the cloud.

“The cloud is helpful because I can get it on the computer and not have to email it to myself,” Mathis said.

Google Docs aren’t the only useful feature in Google Drive, or even the Chromebooks. Other helpful features include Google Slides, Google Spreadsheet, Google Classroom, Google Forums, and many more.

These features are similar to Microsoft Office, however the Google Drive services are free to use, and easily accessible. Every student and teacher has a student email through Gmail, and can sign up easily for Google Drive.

“I always use Google Docs to type my papers and Slides to create my power points,” freshman Alyssa Moen said.

Google Classroom is revolutionary on its own. According to Google Support, Classroom is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments without wasting paper, including the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google document for each student.

“The collaboration aspect is very useful, and it’s something you can’t find anywhere else. It’s time efficient and it’s nice to turn the attention away from Microsoft, which is where we were going,” web design teacher Hollie Ricke said.

New technology allows for better organization, more affordable prices, and easier one-on-one communication between students and teachers.

Thanks to Google Drive, a new window has been opened for students, both struggling and excelling.

-izzyKIRKENDOLL

<< Students use Chromebooks to access Google products such as Google Documents and Google Drive.

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Connecting with a distance Using the Internet to connect with far away friends

With the Internet being used worldwide, relationships and friendships stay in touch with the help of online applications. Skype, Snapchat, Oovoo, and Facebook Messenger are a few examples of the endless amount of communication devices that can be accessed through the Internet.

Students who have moved from other states can still connect with their old friends through the web. For many foreign exchange students not only connect with friends back home, but also their families.

Young Life (YL) and YL Work Crew members connect with people they met at camps and other members of the organization in other states by using a variety of Internet applications. With camps and events being out of state, such as Colorado and Georgia, keeping in contact with people met there is easy. Skype, Oovoo and Snapchat are popular ways campers stay in touch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I stay connected with friends I have met at Young Life camps through Instagram and Twitter. Seeing how they live back home is interesting and it lets me get to know them better,â&#x20AC;? junior Kaitlyn Seabrook said.

With the Internet still evolving, so are new apps. With new apps being created each day, connecting with people across the country and even across the globe is made easy.

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Foreign exchange student Martina Anceschi

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Young Life Work Crew

<< Apple has added the ability to change the language of the keyboard in applications such as iMessage, Mail, Notes, and other added apps like Twitter and Instagram.

WHO DO YOU THINK THEY ARE?

Catfish and online impersonation

As seen on Music Television’s (MTV) show “Catfish,” many are affected by people saying they are and pretending to be someone they are not. From romantic relationships to friendships, “catfishing” lures the victim into participating with one whose persona is fiction. Catfishing is also used as a way of cyber bullying. Many bullies sadly use online websites or mobile apps to bully kids ranging from young teens to young adults. The cyber bullies can also range from teens to older predators.

Catfishers are usually successful because of the image they portray, and their believable, offline behaviors. Younger teens are wanting to believe the person the “catfisher” is portraying is real. Music Telivision(MTV)’s “Catfish” TV series shows the truth and examples of catfishing when young people fall in love with

online profiles who turn out to be extremely older, younger, or the opposite sex than they are illustrating.

In this generation, the popularity of online dating sites, and social media has increased dramatically; this has caused the availability for catfishing to also increase. Statistics from Scientific America state that 1 in 5 relationships begin on some form of social media. Warning signs can include a profile possessing modeling as a profession, no pictures, and no webcam available.

Overall, teens are becoming more aware of the catfish problem and are learning ways to avoid the issue.

Catfishing by the numbers 10 million Americans use online dating sites.

Most fake accounts are females created by males.

83 million Facebook accounts are fakes and duplicates.

-graceBALL

Loneliness, fear, sadness, anger, jealousy, and boredom are the top reasons that fake profiles are created.

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25% of rapists in 2005 used online dating to find victims.

http://visual.ly/warningsign-catfish-online

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families stay banded together while apart

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Student uses Internet to bridge the gap of overseas deployment

For those of us born in the age of technology, there is little that trumps the overwhelming despair and separation anxiety that accompanies an absence from Internet connection. Even the dead spots throughout Andover High have a way of testing our perseverance and mental fortitude. And the no-cell-phone policy during class â&#x20AC;&#x201C; how could they dare prohibit the very essence of what keeps our world turning, even for forty-five minutes? Preposterous.

While we all face our daily connection struggles, the Internet serves an especially important role in the lives of military kids. My dad, a KC-135 pilot stationed at McConnell Air Force Base, has been back and forth from the desert since the September 11 attacks. From the time I was little, I remember hugging my dad goodbye in his tan deployment flight suit as he prepared for the long journey overseas.

The true feeling of sending a parent off to war is indescribable; someone reading this knows exactly what I mean. Hindered by the dreadfully long missions, nine-hour time zone difference, and exceptionally poor WiFi, intermittent Skype or FaceTime was our only source of contact for months at a time.

With flight times of over ten hours, my dad was nearly always flying or sleeping. I cannot imagine how he kept from doing both. On the few days he had off, I was usually either sleeping or at school; however, we always did the most with the time we did have.

Unfortunately, a lot of this time went to my math homework. I have gone head to head with math my entire school career and more often than not, the math came out victorious. For whatever reason, there were some things that my little mind just failed to comprehend. In fact, I never really got my act together with math until probably my sophomore year

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of high school. Until then, I always had to have my dad explain things to me. I would try my best on my homework at night, and he would sit down with me and explain the things I failed to understand. My freshman year, I had an especially difficult time with my Algebra II homework. When we found out he would be deploying during the middle of the school year, we came up with a plan.

Before he left, he downloaded the online version of the textbook on his iPad. Each night, I would finish my Algebra homework as soon as I got home from school. Then, I would scan my work and answers on the printer and email it to him overseas. When he woke up, he would actually take my homework with him on the airplane and work on it during the flight, circling somewhere high above Afghanistan.

After landing, he would email me with his answers and explain to me the things I did not understand. Rewind nine hours to Kansas time, and I would be waking up and getting ready for school with feedback before turning in my assignment. I have been privileged to have amazing math teachers here at Andover â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but I could not have done it without a little help from thousands of miles away.

If we were not emailing about math homework, we were likely trying to have a phone conversation over Skype about things at home. Trust me, you do not know frustration until you have attempted to have a conversation with five to ten second delays.

I find it funny how easily we take instantaneous conversations for granted; but even in the frustration and sadness of separation, we still found time to have fun. It was not until this most recent deployment that we had the means (or technology for that matter) to play multiplayer games on our smart phones.

Oddly enough, the Wi-Fi only worked with certain games, which required tremendous patience to complete. We had a chess match

So I was walking Luci the other day and –” “How’s tennis going?” “…uh, it’s good, we just played at Ark City on Thurs –” “Did she enjoy her wal-” “What?” “…”

“Go ahead” “Yeah, I took her down to the par-” “How was Ark City?”

that lasted nearly two months playing in ten minute intervals. I quickly mastered the art of tic-tac-toe (no, I did not just look up strategies on the internet…OK, maybe), and got schooled a few times in Words with Friends and checkers.

In a combination of emails, phone calls, and online gaming shenanigans, my dad’s deployments have come and gone. Each time, I have witnessed a noticeable difference in how technology has improved to allow more and faster connections. It is easy for me to sit back and complain about how poor the WiFi is, or how inconvenient it is to log in and out of an uncooperative checkers game room so many times, I run out of time to actually play the game. But all of these are, as the saying goes, “first world problems.” I know there are other kids who have no idea where their mom or dad is for the entire duration of the deployment, and parents who have no idea when their son or daughter is coming home. There are birthdays, holidays, graduations, weddings, births and deaths all missed while overseas defending the country.

Worst of all, there are those who leave and do not make it back home.

A KC-135 crash in Kyrgyzstan happened while my dad was deployed. The picture of a McConnell AFB tail strewn across wreckage was gut wrenching, heartbreaking, and disturbing, serving as a powerful reminder of how lucky I am to see my dad at the end of his tour, regardless of trivial Internet inconveniences. While these are my experiences, my heart goes out to the friends, families, and loved ones of those who continue to defend the “first world” blessings we continue to enjoy.

-nicRAMIREZ

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Rising Up from youtube A new way of being discovered Many celebrities become famous by being discovered on the Internet. There are various websites that people can post videos on.

However, the most popular one is YouTube.

YouTube is a famous website and app that allows you to upload and share videos with people from all over the world. Over a billion people access YouTube everyday.

Many undiscovered musicians post videos on it on a regular basis. However, Justin Bieber was one of the lucky singers that were discovered on YouTube at a young age.

Beiber started to post-homemade videos of him singing covers of Ne-Yo, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson at the age of twelve. His videos were being shared all over social media.

Word spread about Beiber and his views kept rising. One video caught the attention of Usher’s manager, Scooter Braun. After watching many videos of him from YouTube, Braun flew Beiber out to meet Usher in Atlanta, Georgia.

Beiber is now one of the most famous musicians in the world.

He now has over a billion views on YouTube for his music videos.

His dreams may not have been able to come true if he had not post videos on YouTube.

Bieber helped another musician become famous by telling his manager about her. Carly Rae Jepsen was already well known in Canada where she is from.

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Jepsen got third place when she sang on Canadian Idol. She also posted different videos of her performances on YouTube. Jepson was twenty-seven when Beiber’s manager began viewing her videos and signed her to Schoolboy Records.

Another well-known singer that was discovered on YouTube is Austin Mahone. Austin and his friend Alex Constancio started posting videos on YouTube at a young age. Soon after that, Mahone started to post music videos on his account.

His first cover was “Beautiful Soul” by Jesse McCartney. He received over 175,000 views. After people began to hear about him, he gained more Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers.

Cody Simpson was discovered in the same way as Beiber and Mahone. He is from Australia but his voice caught the attention of people all over the world.

He began posting videos in 2009 and released his first single shortly after in 2010. Shawn Campbell, the man who got Cody Simpson a record deal with Atlantic Records, discovered him in 2009.

People constantly share YouTube videos on Twitter and Facebook, which give them more attention. YouTube is full of people with amazing talent who still wish to be discovered.

-ashleySHANDY

music & the internet

Listening progression through total connection The Internet has greatly impacted the way people listen to and enjoy music. Twenty years ago, people were bringing compact discs (CDs) and cassettes to parties. The Internet has re-written the way listeners can access music. Through services such as Spotify and Pandora listeners can access a plethora of music wherever you have an Internet connection.

The way people listen to and enjoy music varies significantly.

If a person likes a song by an artist, all they have to do is buy the single and they have it instantly to enjoy. Years ago if someone liked a song by an artist they had to buy the whole album in order to enjoy the single they liked the most.

Artists are putting their music on YouTube to create a bigger following and increase the number of people who are discovering their music. Still, the rise of music piracy is becoming an increasing problem as it is very difficult to police.

With all the music on YouTube, the simplicity of piracy costs production companies and artists a tremendous amount of money.

However, some may argue this is okay because more people will be listening to their music and creating a larger following.

Many artists need a following to rise in popularity. When people illegally download a single or two it can spark an interest. They

will start buying the albums and talking to their friends about the band. If that band is touring near the person, they might go to the concert and then buy the merchandise at the concert.

In the past, artists created a demo CD and sent it to production companies, waiting for the producers to listen to it. With the rise of social media influence, artists can create a single and put it across social media and advertise it however they wish.

Through social media, average listeners can listen and enjoy as well as producers who can find it and see the social media following the artist already has. Artists have the upper hand in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s age, as home studio equipment is readily available. This is highly preferred as opposed to seeking out studio time.

The music-streaming site Spotify has generated playlists according to genre, mood, or even the days of the week. Through this streaming site, listeners are able to discover many new artists and bands.

Internet streaming sites have made it easier for listeners to discover and enjoy music. Music is right at the listeners fingertips on either a laptop or hand-held device. The Internet is transforming the ways consumers find and access music.

-maddyBISHOP

- ashleySHANDY

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Staff Editorial

BLUESTREAK editorial policy

The Trojan Bluestreak exists to inform, persuade and entertain its readers concerning topics of importance. The newspaper recognizes all rights and responsibilities under the First Amendment.

The Bluestreak operates as a public forum for student expression and the staff takes full responsibility for newspaper content and its ramifications.

The Trojan Bluestreak will not publish material considered to be legally unprotected speech, libel, obscenity copyright infringement,unwarranted invasion of privacy or material that could disrupt the educational environment.

The Bluestreak is a CSPA Gold Medalist and KSPA All-Kansas honor recipient.

<<Megan Curry>>

The ‘one-click’ Generation

Millennials will never know a world without Internet connection and the world’s knowledge at their fingertips Much of what makes up our generation is derived from a world completely beyond our understanding. I think I can stay fairly truthful when I say there are few and far between us who can truly grasp the Internet world.

This can be a terrifying thought when placed in tandem with the knowledge that so much is right at our fingertips. So much of our “teenage customs” come from the Internet and the total accessibility it distributes among us. Our way of talking, our humor, our “memes”—they all come from the electronic world our nation shares. The First Lady of the U.S. supposedly likes sweet potatoes; “What are those?!” quickly wandered it’s way through our halls; websites to pirate music and videos are just a click away.

These things are nothing but normal to those living in our society. Teens no longer quiver at the mere idea of posting something inappropriate, nor fear their parents or teachers will discover it.

Sexting and sending “nudes” on Internet forums are regular tales in high school halls.

Right now, I could search any topic on Google or Bing and get thousands, if not millions or billions of hits. Guess how many hits pop up if you type ‘dog riding a skateboard’ into a search engine? I can say with complete certainty that at 1:51 p.m. on Oct. 16 in 2015, any viewer would receive about 645,000 results in less than a second. If this does not boggle your mind, nothing in this universe will.

How many of you have ever tried explaining the Internet or even a tablet to your grandparents? How about just your parents? Now imagine attempting to explain these things to, say, Abraham Lincoln or Rosa Parks. A hundred years ago, no one could have imagined the advantage our generation has.

Our days revolve around who favorites our tweets or views our Snapchat stories. Our minds are corrupted with the availability of nearly every piece of knowledge on an LED screen. “Go like my insta!” and “Do you have a charger I could borrow?” are phrases I am getting downright exhausted of hearing. Throw around a football or

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play with your dog. I know I am guilty of this as well, visiting a friend just to lay in bed immersed by our own screens and occasionally commenting on the Netflix show we are so adamantly “watching.”

I can only hope that technology will not consume my children’s lives--that one day, I will not only see my relatives via Internet connection. The technologically savvy world we live in has its ups and its downs. It brings joy to families distanced by many miles or even ocean lengths. It allows a soldier stationed in the Middle East to witness the birth of his first child. I, myself, have even attended the funeral of a dear family member, and sat next to the computer screen displaying my uncle who could not travel the thousands of miles to be at the burial.

The downs can be much more tragic. Women are stalked, children are pimped out over cameras, phones can be tracked by the wrong people. My own parents require me to “drop a pin” when I go out at night, just in case something happens, just in case they do not hear from me for a bit too long. This makes them feel I am safe, but it only makes me feel controlled.

Technology holds a different meaning for every age. Toddlers only know they can play games on mommy’s phone. Middle schoolers are excited to be getting their first social media accounts. Teenagers spend a good majority of their time checking different forums.

Our parents and grandparents see it as a hassle, something they never had to deal with in their time, and often something they refuse to try to understand.

As we age into adulthood, we can research our presidential candidates; we can “hashtag” for cancer and underprivileged women across the world; we can purchase an app that, for every minute we do not use our phones, gives a gallon of clean water to a community who needs it. We know the good we can do with the Internet at our disposal. Let’s go out and get to it.

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INSIDE the internet

Accessibility of adult content through the Internet has affected the millennial generation The word pornography originated in Greece during the mid-nineteenth century. It literally means “writing about harlots (aka, prostitutes).” Merriam-Webster’s dictionary declares pornography as “movies, pictures, magazines, etc., that show or describe naked people or sex in a very open and direct way in order to cause sexual excitement.”

Playboy men’s magazine recently announced it would no longer be publishing completely nude photographs. The feminists of society are cheering and saying a maybe-not-so silent prayer of thanks. But for today’s culture, this is bad news.

“Pornography is so readily available and consumed, it’s become mundane,” Aaron Cline Hanbury at Relevant Magazine said.

Playboy ironically played a crucial role in normalizing the naked human body and it’s natural sexuality when it first began printing in the fifties. Marilyn Monroe, America’s sex symbol of the fifties, was featured on the front cover, with a nude portrait printed in the centerfold.

“That battle [for mass access and consumption to porn] has been fought and won. You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so [nudity is] just passé at this juncture,” Playboy’s CEO Scott Flander said in an interview with The New York Times.

GQ writer Jack Moore believes this shift has been long overdue for Playboy. “…we live in a world where all the world’s porn is like three mouse clicks away, and most of it is totally free. In a world like

What medium do you use to access adult content?

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computer

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iPad or tablet

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2% other

This information is based off a survey of over 200 Andover High School students.

that, Playboy is redundant at best and embarrassing at worst,” the writer said.

A study conducted by the Barna Group found that more than 60 percent of American men view porn at least monthly.

Among younger men (18 to 30 years old), 30 percent admitted to viewing it daily. The Internet age is so used to seeing the human body partially or completely naked that it no longer takes a second glance. Was that a half naked woman in that advertisement pop-up on Facebook? Yep, it sure was.

“In 2002, sex-related sites became the No. 1 economic sector of the Internet, with sales exceeding the combined sales of both software and computers,” according to enrichmentjournal. ag.org.

“We’ve reached the point where an ‘adult’ magazine has to distinguish itself by being (relatively) censored,” Hanbury said.

People no longer have to pay to view the adult content that used to be locked behind drugstore counters. Cell phones, tablets, computers are just behind every door. The majority of teenagers have only to pull their phone out of their pocket and type ‘porn’ into a search engine to get the content many parents frown upon.

Scantily clad models and provocative photos are so readily available there is no need to go specifically seek it out.

Victoria’s Secret models are paraded down the runway in only a bra, panties, and heels. Walk into any mall to see largerthan-life-sized portraits filling windows. It is no longer a hunt to see adult content. The thrill of the chase has been eliminated.

How often do you clear your internet history?

58% never clear it 18% once a week 12% use an “incognito” browser 7% after everytime they search 8% once a day

Have you seen a nude that wasn’t meant for you, including celebrities’?

Yes No

41%

Have you ever used the internet to access adult content?

33%

59%

No

67%

Playboy and its founder, Hugh Hefner, “revolutionized the whole direction of how we live, of our lifestyles and the kind of sex you might have in America. But taking nudity out of Playboy is going to leave what?” author and an editor for Taschen Dian Hanson said.

Millennials are so immune to nude or partially nude bodies everywhere they look, that magazines dedicated to nude photo shoots do not even require a second glance.

The human body in all its glory is becoming normalized.

This is bad news for many companies’ markets. For instance, Sports Illustrated (SI) publishes an annual swimsuit edition purely to widen its audience and deepen its revenue. What is to become of that extra revenue if this publication is also forced to absolve nudity to spare its business as a whole? SI’s swimsuit issue sells more than one million copies each year, which is as much as “10 to 15 times more than regular SI,” Business Insider says.

Rallies are being held across the world to weaken the cringes felt by older members of society at the sight of ‘risque’ outfits. The 1960s did its part to institute the human, specifically female, body into society as a beautiful creation.

Playboy dispensing with its foundation of nudity is only the beginning for the sexualized media coverage of today’s world.

-meganCURRY

Million billion

35% 2.5 of all Internet downloads are related to pornography.**

Yes

68

“‘…we live in a world where all the world’s porn is like three mouse clicks away, and most of it is totally free.’”

- Jack Moore

emails sent or Every second received every day contain porn.** people are search engine typing the word searches are “adult” into related to search engines.** pornography

372

daily.**

** These statistics are from http://www.webroot.com/us/en/ home/resources/ tips/digital-family-life/internetpornography-bythe-numbers

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internet [in-ter-net]

noun 1. a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide.

96% 60%

of Americans acCess the Internet daily of Americans use social media daily

64%

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www.internetsociety.org

of Americans own smartphones www.internetlivestats.com

97% 88% 10%

22%

of students own a cell phone

Š

prefer a different type of phone

prefer Android phones Š

How smartphones have impacted society according to AHS students

39%

15%

Negatively

53%

of students charge their phone at night

25%

of students charge their phone when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s below 20%

How much time do you typically spend on your phone daily?

9%

less than 1 hour

27% 1-2 hours

31% 33%

46% Positively

2%

prefer Apple phones

of students charge their phone whenever they have the chance

3-4 hours

over 4 hours

Neutral

The information on this infographic is from a poll of 200 students.

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You got games?

Popular online games in Andover’s eyes In October of 1980, the United States became aware of the dot-munching, ghost-chasing sensation known as Pac-Man. 1984, Tetris was released for the Nintendo Game Boy, and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The infamous sequel to Half-Life, Half-Life 2 arrived in 2004.

It was not until one week later when, today’s most well known “massively multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG), World of Warcraft was released.

Since Nov. 2004, the amount of online gamers has seemed to exponentially grow. League of Legends, Dota 2, and most recently, Heroes of the Storm, are the most recognized “multiplayer online battle arenas” (MOBA). The fast-paced, online card playing game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft introduced a new type of competition with unique card abilities that would not be possible if one played with actual cards.

Most people might think of a computer when they think of online gaming. While it seems to be the most obvious choice, there is also the option of console gaming. The most well-known games for console seem to be the Call of Duty franchise.

Besides just sitting in a basement playing games with their friends, some gamers want to prove they are better.

This is when huge gaming tournaments are created. Similar to a sports game, hundreds of thousands of fans will come to watch their favorite e-sports teams compete for titles and prize money.

With the introduction of sites like Twitch.tv and even YouTube, gamers all over the world can now live stream and share their experiences with fans.

These are just a few common examples, but even the generic games one might find at a casino such as Blackjack, Poker, Roulette, et cetera are now available on the Internet.

This might be great for some people, however, in the games that use real money, others might develop a gambling problem faster.

For the most part, online gaming has brought people together within the games. Some even end up meeting their online friends at conventions. In just the last decade, the Internet has dramatically changed the gaming world.

-stuartJENKINS

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Computer-Based Gaming A good mouse will help, especially those made for gaming. Preferably wireless mice.

Ergonomic keyboards are also highly recommended for those long hours of gaming.

PCs are strongly recommended as they are more customizable.

Laptops might work, as long as they are specifically made for gaming.

No setup is complete without a headset. Turtle Beach headsets are priced nicely for those just starting out.

Console-Based Gaming Most times, gamers can just hook up a console to their TV but a good monitor will work too.

In most cases, controllers come with the console, but a custom controller is usually a better option.

Illustration by Kamilla Sims

The Evolution of entertainment

Changes throughout the decades Back in 2005, when most high school students were young children, the Nintendo DS, rentable movies, and CDs were ways of entertainment. As technology has evolved over the last decade, internet-based devices and programs have expanded ways of entertainment.

In the movie industry, going to the theater and renting from stores were once the norm.

While theaters are still in business, ticket sales continue to decline, according to Business Insider.

When the iPhone and online streaming were developed, movies became mobile. Netflix is one of the latest crazes as a TV and movie platform instead of cable or the movie theater.

“You can watch however many shows you want and there is such a variety of shows,” junior Skylar Craft said.

The convenience of accessing these films has been simplified using web-based applications such as YouTube and iTunes but also through illegal pirating sites. Merriam-Webster defines piracy as “the unauthorized use of another’s production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright.” A Swedish group dedicated to anti-copyright media started The Pirate Bay, now one of the biggest pirating sites in the world.

In a survey of 200 students, 48 percent of them admitted to committing piracy at least once.

In the same survey, 26 percent said they would forgo pirating if media was available at cheaper prices. While pirating is still an issue, the digital theater has benefitted both customers and digital technology companies on a larger spectrum.

Music has evolved into a booming industry within technology. Social media has helped take music from simply an audio source to a multimedia experience online. For example, many artists have created interactive apps and social media campaigns to accompany their songs or music videos for promotion.

Online applications such as iHeartRadio and Spotify provide a rotation of personalized music instead of a traditional disk jockey. Users can “favorite” or give a digital “thumbs-up” to songs they enjoy, or “thumbs-down” to songs they do not like. The site uses this information to play specifically what the listener wants to hear, rather than the opinion of a large population.

According to Nielson.com, streaming was up 54 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, with 164 billion streams. From the perception of the public, streaming gives listeners a cheap/free alternative to buying albums and it provides listeners with a unique selection of music. Record labels usually receive money when their songs released by their label are streamed. “[I like streaming] because it is easier and it costs less money,” freshman Ginnie Flores said.

To some artists, however, some streaming services pay little or nothing to the artists each time their song is played, unlike raw album sales.

Some royalties are based on the popularity of the artist and how much the songs are played.

Artists such as Taylor Swift have taken their music off of some sites in dispute of their low pay and a “discredit” to the work of the artists. Swift said in a 2014 editorial, “Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.”

Music in the modern world seems to be going through typical “growing pains.” It is clear, however, that the future of internet-based music is bright.

Gaming has expanded onto the Internet as well. Arcade games such as Pac-Man and Galaga are now available as iPhone apps or Internet games instead of using a large machine.

People can compete against each other from across the world instead of having to be next to each other. Within these games, users can chat using the Internet, either by video/audio conversation or a text chat. Interest in immersive 3D helmets is growing and could possibly enter the mainstream market in years to come.

Overall, technology has rapidly expanded in our modern world because of the Internet. These modernized forms of entertainment have shaped modern culture and will continue to do so for years to come.

-ashleyDORF

*The Bluestreak staff does not condone the use of The Pirate Bay or any other copyright infringement sites.

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Vine Stars Cody Ko 1.8M followers 1,614,817,904 loops 853 posts Shawn Mendes 4.3M followers 438,079,504 loops 691 posts

https://soundcloud.com/omtracks

STUDENT Q&A

Q What is your favorite platform to post your music on?

A “SoundCloud.”

Zachary Piona 2.8M followers 1,718,938,070 loops 188 posts Christian Leave 708.6k followers 376,616,167 loops 143 posts

*All statistics as of 10/19/2015

Normal people who gained popularity over the Internet

Oliver Milmine is an Andover junior and musician who posts his original songs and covers on Vine and SoundCloud. He began posting covers on Vine in July 2014.

Q What content do you post on SoundCloud?

A “It’s all originals. Most of it is more electronic but I have a couple songs that I play on my guitar on it.”

Q How do you create your music?

A “I use software called FL Studio and Logic Pro X. I use my skills with guitar and piano and blend that into the software.”

Q Why did you decide to put your music on SoundCloud?

A “I had a friend who showed me his music on SoundCloud and I was really intrigued by that.”

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YOUTUBEtutorials These “YouTubers” show viewers how to do this and why viewers should NOT do that Since its start in early 2005, YouTube has been steadily rising as an up and coming entertainment platform. One of the most unique aspects of YouTube is that any person with internet access can contribute. While YouTube is still a relatively new platform, many individuals have created careers out of the website.

One of the most popular lifestyle vloggers that has taken YouTube by storm is Zoe Sugg. She is more commonly known as Zoella. Sugg joined YouTube on February 7, 2007. Over Sugg’s years on YouTube, she has accumulated over 9 million subscribers and over 500 million video views.

Sugg also has a second YouTube channel under the name of MoreZoella where she posts bloopers and extra videos that are not suited for her primary channel.

Bethany Mota is another beauty and lifestyle vlogger who has skyrocketed to internet fame as a result of her YouTube content. Mota started creating videos on June 12, 2009. The internet fame that Mota acquired after years of creating videos has even granted her the opportunity to start a clothing line. On her main channel, Mota has over

9 million subscribers.

Another section of YouTube that has created YouTube stars is the comedy genre. One of the most prominent examples of this is Tyler Oakley. Oakley uploads videos to his channel twice a week. As a result of this, he has reached over 7 million subscribers. Oakley has uploaded more than 350 videos to his main channel. He continues to be a large presence on many other social media websites including Twitter and Tumblr.

The gaming genre of YouTube is a genre that has always been extremely popular with viewers. A big gaming personality is Felix Kjellberg, more commonly known as PewDiePie. Kjellberg is approaching 40 million subscribers and has over 10 billion views over all of his videos.

He has posted over 2,000 videos on his main channel.

Kjellberg created his YouTube channel on April 29, 2010 making him a latecomer.

Many of the people who get their start on YouTube branch out to other areas in terms of their careers. Troye Sivan, who started as a Youtuber, is now creating music and is very successful in this endeavor. Sivan, who joined YouTube on October 7th, 2007, still uploads videos regularly in addition to creating music. Sivan has over 3 million subscribers and is backed by an extremely loyal fan base.

-rebekahMARTIN

All images on spread have been obtained with a standard license.

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hot hashtags Clever Hashtag Collection

#momtexts

#MyWeirdWaiter

#ThatsMyDad

#MisheardLyrics

#InappropriateFuneralSongs

#WhyImSingle

1988 Hashtag first used by Internet Relay Chat users

2009

2013 Facebook begins to incorporate the hashtag into its website

Twitter formally adopts the hashtag for hyperlinking terms

Chris Messina introduces the hashtag for use on Twitter

2007 Andover’s Popular Hashtags #FunAndCrazy #OldSchool #YTheLNot #ABOTR #trashytuesday #ATown #AHSFC #youCANsitwithus

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Instagram adds a hashtag feature

2011 Hashtag DO’s and DON’T #DON’T make them too long #DO come up with a clever hashtag for events #DON’T have more hashtags than words #DO be specific #DON’T post a selfie with the hashtag selfie

What Do You Mean?

Tweet I wanna see [movie title] so bad!!

Fave for an honest DM.

Translation I want my crush to ask me to go to that movie.

I want to talk to my crush or someone cute I don’t know.

*selfie with caption* “She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.”

I wanted to post this good picture of me without seeming conceited.

Can’t get out of bed!

I do not wanna get up so maybe tweeting about it will help.

such a terrible day already!

*girl power breakup song lyric*

ugh please feel bad for me!

Wants ex to think I’m doing well.

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Internet top 5’s Most-followed Twitter accounts

1.Katy Perry

1.Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse”

2.Justin Bieber

Iglesias’s “Bailando Bueno 2.Enrique Gente De Zona”

3. Barack Obama

“Can’t Remember to Forget 3.Shakira’s You”

4. Taylor Swift

4. Shakira’s “La La La” 5. Jason Derulo’s “Wiggle”

5. YouTube 1.

Most-watched music videos

Google searches of 2014

Robin Williams

2.

World Cup

3.

Ebola

5.

4.

Malaysia Airlines

Flappy Bird

Most-liked Instagram photos

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

What is your favorite......

d

Students pick their favorite apps

Social Media

Music

Shopping

What app do you use the most?

• Netflix • Snapchat • Instagram • Twitter What is your favorite game to play on your phone?

• Clash of Clans • Flappy Bird • Candy Crush • 1010 OCT. 30th, 2015

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Stay out late at the

Wichita Art Museum

and make some art.

Sketch-a-Thon is a special night for high school students to meet local artists, make art, dance, and eat pizza, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all FREE! Saturday, November 21

6 to 10 pm at WAM !

Wichita Art Museum 1400 W. Museum Blvd.

FREE admission but advance registration is required:

wichitaartmuseum.org/register

for information email education@wichitaartmuseum.org