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-In the 1720s London was busy getting drunk. -Gin was very popular in London. -Gin pushcarts plied the streets of and if you couldn't affourd a glass, you could buy a gin soaked rag. -Flop-houses did brisk business renting straw pallets by the hour if you needed to sleep off the effects. -Gin consuption rose dramatically in the early 1700's. -People have to adapt to new lifestyles or changes -Population tends to increase when an area becomes popular -T.V., internet, and other things that distract us cause us to be less social -There are people in this world that like the idea of paying it forward and they want to do something that will make the world a better place -Technology has become so far advaneced that we don't need the computer we have realized that our phones or ipods can do the job. Everyhting has been enhanced with a camera so if anything in the world happens anybody could be filming or taking pictures. Back then we would have to carry around cameras, recorders, or things that allowed us to video tape. -we all use the language that helps us shorten our way of texting or im or even regular email such things like lol, ttyl, lmfao,ttfn, etc -Now that we are so advanced we do not need to rely on a professional for information any stranger could know just as much - technology is always making history -Population was growing at at a historically unprecedented rate. -Crime of all sorts was rising. -It was palatable and intoxicating, a winning combination, especially when a chaotic world can make sobriety seem overated. -Since the SecondWorldWar,increases GDP,educational attainment andlifespanhave forced the industrailized world tograpplewith somtheing -Gin was considered a coping mechanism.

Want to know -Why did it become so popular? -How big of a problem was it that there was a law made against it? -How is the Gin Craze related o the internet? -Is the Gin Craze related to the Prhibition? -Why are the people becoming less social due to these distractions? - How are we teaching ourselves to do all these things? -Is it just the repetition of someone else's work that we learn? -How are we teaching the net? -Why do we think of the HOW WHY when we create?

Learn -everything started changing and places started getting more populated. -Gin was considered a coping mechanism. -It was hard for the men to see that the women would drink Gin -The average person has watched at least 50 thousand hours os television -Gin seemed to be someone's get away just like the t.v. or internet does for us -From watching so much t.v. viewers have made imaginary friends through the characters on t.v. -The amount of time people spend on sites like wikipedia takes 1 hundred million hours of thought -Americans watch roughly two hundred billion hours of t.v. -Milkshakes at Mcdonalds are more popular in the morning -Political activists in Kenya would blog about the violence -It seemed that reporting violence was easiest through text messages from other people then to hear it from authorities -Due to cognitive surplus people are doing things in a way that allows other people to copy and repeat it as many times as they wish, others creat things for entertainment and so on -It is interesting to read that people are making websites that invole comments that use this lazy kind of talk and it is entertaiment because it is a commented picture -People are mistaking their missed free time with the time they spend on the computer entertaining themselves being somthing else like an elf -As technology advances we are creating things that we never thought we could or even thought of -Without our activity on the net there is no consumption, production, or sharing