I really enjoyed these articles due to the fact that I have been interested in HTML almost since its conception in the mid 90s. I'm fairly sure that this computer language has been around longer, but I remember in 8th grade my Science teacher told us it was the "hot new thing" in technology and we would do well to learn this language. Being interested in computers all my life, I took my teacher up on this opportunity, and soon was learning how to write this language from scratch. Before long I learned the basics and I was writing my school district's web pages. I can remember these primitive pages that people thought were really amazing at the time. I was proud of myself because I could write tables, and limited java and java script. Of course these pages are dinosaurs today, but thanks to my science teacher I got a head start on the internet, and particularly the world wide web. This enabled me to understand the web more, and I think I appreciate it more today because of my early web experiences.
Of course today we have highly sophisticated programs that can create the actual HTML for you. But even when I was younger in the mid 90s, I was aware of MIDI technology, and how I could use it in relationship to the web pages I was creating. For instance, when I created the Hudson Middle School web page in 1995, I composed a MIDI file of our school's fight song, and put it on the website. I received a lot of compliments for this back then, even though my MIDI file was also very primitive compared with the technology of today. I used to upload my MIDI compositions onto a website that I shared with the global community. I constructed this website specifically for the purpose of showing-off my compositions, and interacting with other composers. I was also able to join a network of communities that let me receive MIDI compositions from other composers.
I think that HTML and MIDI technology will have a great place in the future. I think it is very important that educators from all fields should become aware of this great technology. As this century progresses, it will only become more and more important.
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Not only do these technologies have value in music teaching and learning, but they can be fun to "play" with. Sounds like you discovered this quite awhile ago! You talked about how things were in 1995. It will be very interesting to see how things have evolved in another 14-15 years.
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