Category: <span>Computer Corner</span>

Originally created in 1995, Flash Player, better known as Micromedia Flash and later as Adobe Flash, was a significant innovation that brought graphics.

For quite some time I have been struggling to come up with the appropriate analogy to describe the problem and the threat to the internet presented by some of the “innovations” coming out of Google.

The good news is that the World Wide Web (www) has not gone away. The bad news, at least for the tech-savvy, is that “www” is being obscured and hidden away from the view of a very large number of internet users because Google now considers “www” to be “trivial.”

If you have ever been confused about why your smart phone seems to work sometimes but not others, or some features seem to work but not others; you are not alone.

There is a problem well-known among computer techs, one that I call “brain lock.” Your laptop can become temporarily frozen, and therefore unable to respond.

Almost everyone who uses the internet today is aware of the ubiquitous surveillance by big tech. Amazon, Facebook, Google, and others want to track everywhere you go and everything you do online.

The toxic political climate now existing in 2021 has prompted some people to start investigating alternatives to “big tech” and its censorship.

Thirty years ago computer viruses were still uncommon. Those were the days before the worldwide internet made it possible for all kinds of malware to be instantly and widely disseminated. In the late 1980s and early 90s if you were infected by a computer virus it almost certainly arrived on an infected floppy disk, and that is what happened at the Biblioteca.

Using SSL, you can usually be assured your communications are secure unless someone inserts another SSL certificate into your local device.