Week 5, #10

"Avatars" - Since we're learning about these, it is important for us all to be fully informed of the full scope of this concept. Although the information given in the ihcpl assignment is accurate, a significant omission compels me add the hysterical basis (that's right, not historical) of this important subject. To whit -

The first "Avatar" was the appellation adopted by an avid fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who of course, authored the ever popular "Tarzan" stories that became popular movies in the formative years of the film industry. This avid Tarzan fan, in the interest of anonymity truncated her name to "Avatar" while establishing the first "blog" in June of 1937. Tragically, no one gave credit to her for this seminal work, primarily because no one knew about the Internet (which she invented) at that time, but also because of the rampant gender bias of that era. As is commonly know, it took decades for her invention to be brought before the public by Claude Shannon, who working for Bell Laboratories & conducting research on Information Theory, was given credit for inventing the Internet.

At this point, I've looked at Goodreads & tries to add my own titles . . . since I prefer nonfiction books, that is what I entereed. Guess what? it responds that it can't find the titles. So, I'll need to verify that my entries are correct & come back later. Well, that's lesson #11, so I'll close this post & move on. ttfn