I'm sure that you know I am her boyfriend but do you know what is Pop culture?
Me? I say..... yes... but, well... I think I can't define it correctly. So I google now.

     OK. According to this site, Pop culture is simply what large number of people are interested in. That can be movie, music, comic, game.... Wow so simple!

     Then, in Japan, what is POP now? OK, let me google the word "pop culture in Japan" and see the very first link on the list! カチャカチャカチャ

 There you go. Oh wow! "Japan Pop Culture Festival 2011" !? This might be a good one to get the answer! Why don't I click it??

 I love Japaaaaan!!(*´ロ｀)
It seems Anime is the heart of Japanese pop culture now.
"Funny country" (TUJ student). I can't leave here.

      Here is a example of social media usage in pop culture. Nico Nico Douga, one of the famous video sharing platform in Japan, has official anime channel. (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/menu/anime) Many of them are free. Amazing!


The Golden Age of Flash Animation

      Since we have learned about history of Internet in class, I would like to introduce some recent internet history in Japan. It's around 2001-2005. Some Japanese internet users call it as "The golden age of Flash animation". My school days....

      Flash is a type of active animation which we can put on web site. It is provided by Adobe and it owns original programing language, called Action Script, so you can put some buttons in the animation, you can make game with it, well... it is not really "animation" all the time . And the most amazing thing about this flash is its file size. One Flash animation is about 500 kb for 5 minutes including pictures and sounds.
Here you can see history of Flash.

       Around 2001-2005, DSL was the major internet line which people use at their home in Japan. At that time, movie file is too heavy to deal with in internet and the Flash animation was popular instead.

These are famous Flash animations which were made in the Golden age. I can still recall my school days that My friends and I watched these in computer room in my junior high school........ in class.

      Around 2004, FTTH was becoming popular and the number of subscribers were booming. Some details are here! We got the high speed Internet and came to be able to enjoy movies in Internet.

      In 2005, YouTube was founded. (History of YouTube) Next year, 2006, another popular video sharing platform in Japan, Nico Nico Douga, was founded. (About Nico Nico Douga) As these platforms became so popular, the popularity of Flash animation fell down.

     Flash was taken place by YouTube and Nico Nico now, but Flash is still active in Internet because of its Action Script and file size.

     The Golden Age is my school days. I really miss those days. But I love YouTube and Nico Nico Douga, too. If you have free time tonight, check my YouTube channel. You can tell how I'm happy to be in the Golden age of YouTube! (http://www.youtube.com/user/YukiKomuro)

Yes, this blog is an advertisement. Thank you I'm happy.

Other pages to check!

Nico-Nico Douga Goes English! 

The Golden Age of Flash Animation. 


And again, I'm her boyfriend.


The Mother of All Demos - Doug Engelbart

OK, just remember that you guys need  my permission before you talk to my girlfriend after the amazing class.

Anyway, here is some info about Doug Engelbart.
He is an American inventor who invented Hyper text after he got influenced by Vannevar Bush. He also invented computer mouse, first word processor, and GUI. In 1968, he had a demonstration of his inventions in front of 2000 people.

He left such big impacts on what we touch and use nowadays.


Inventing Modern America: Vision - Doug Engelbart
Here you can get some details of his inventions, computer mouse and the first word processor.

This is some basic and more info about Hypertext.

I thank him so much for his wonderful works. Love PC!

Hello world !

Yes it's me! Her boyfriend. Thank you.