Hello GI Joe fans hooded cobra commander 788 here, and this is the donation unboxing video I am going to open and show you everything I got in the PO box for the month of September 2019 and My god, this may be our biggest month ever I want to remind everyone that you should never feel under any obligation to send anything to the channel I'm just happy having you here watching the videos That's all you need to do and I'm just thrilled that we are going on this GI Joe collecting journey together If you do feel like sending something in and you'd like to help the channel in that way I do have a PO box. The address will appear on the screen right now But again, don't feel like you have to send anything in if you do send something in I will show my appreciation By opening it in a video like this and showing everyone what you sent to me We got so much stuff here including a couple really big boxes We got two letters one of them an international letter and a couple of these boxes are from Brandon Knight And he's been sending me emails saying they're special and he can't wait for me to open them Well, I'm gonna get to open them now I'm going to start with the letter from the UK because it came in first I do not see the sender's name on the envelope But there is a question written on the back of the envelope. It says What if Hawk was worthy enough to pick up Thor's hammer an intriguing question, but considering Considering Hawke's behavior in the comic book series Where he kind of manipulated his troops on several occasions Maybe unnecessarily put them in harm's way. Maybe a couple of times I don't think Hawk would necessarily be worthy to pick up Thor's hammer Hawk is a great leader. No doubt, but He has a little bit of dirt on his hands. That's all I'm saying Intriguing question. I don't think I've ever thought about that So I'm going to open the envelope and see what kind of letter we get If it's a short letter, I will go ahead and read it If it's really long though, I will I'll pause the video and read it and I will give you a General idea of what's in it and reply to any questions in it. So let's see here And It looks like we have a list so let me pause this and read through this list really quick Okay, Gary Watson. Thank you for sending this letter Gary and Gary has a list of some of his favorite GI Joe and action force figures And I think it's a really good list. We've got snake eyes version two shockwave version one airborne version one Beachhead version one firefly version one airtight version one and barbecue version one all really good figures He he had sent a letter before Saying that he thought GI Joe should have been sent to Marvel's earth 616 But then he was made aware of an action force comic book in which GI Joe's quick kick was trained by Marvel's Shang-Chi master of kung fu and that is true and Yeah, Shang-Chi, I'm sorry quick hit consider saying she to be better than iron fist Batrock and Electra Yes So in action force kind of technically action force is sort of in the Marvel universe at least That version of it that side of the universe and Depending on how you look at it in the US series GI Joe is sort of in the Marvel universe, but not really it's kind of it's kind of a gray area because GI Joe had an in cannon crossover with Transformers in the regular Marvel series That's later in the series toward the end of the series, but there were transformers in the GI Joe comic book and In the Transformers comic book There were Marvel comics crossovers including an appearance by spider-man so If transformers are in the same universe as spider-man and Transformers are in the same universe as GI Joe Then GI Joe should be in the same universe as spider-man now I don't think it's ever been treated that way. And in fact, I think that that particular Story element has kind of been I don't know kind of brushed aside. I don't think a lot of people consider that to be cannon now The whole idea of cannon is a little tricky anyway. It's It's it's something that fans seem to care a lot about but in most Pop culture and most popular fiction They try to stick to a cannon, but most don't do it very well So yeah as to whether GI Joe is in the Marvel universe. I guess that's up to interpretation. I don't think it is but there is There is information out there there are sources out there that could make you think that maybe they are So that's an intriguing idea. Thank you, Gary And thank you for writing to me off all the way from England. It's much appreciated and again an intriguing question About Thor being worthy to pick up. I'm sorry Hawk being worthy to pick up Thor's hammer hammer I don't think you would be Hawk is not that that nice of a guy So but thank you. Thank you for this and I as with all letters that I received from anyone ever I keep them all I do not throw them away. So I will keep these with all my other letters and I will cherish it Thank you very much. Next letter appears to be from Jay Luby and it says do not bend to please well I was going to bend it but since you said please I will not so let's see What's in this envelope that he does not want me to bend? All right, here we go There we go, I see what it is it is a file card For dogfight as some of you may know I recently got dogfight in the mudfighter and There he is That was what I was missing. So that's very helpful Thank you very much, and we have a letter from Justin Luby Jock hard iron. That's the codename.  Thank you for your knowledge time and energy you put into your channel I enjoy your reviews and Tuesday night chats if I'm not working I try to drop in well. Thank you for dropping in it's appreciated Here is dog fights file card to make the mud but mudfighter complete Thank you very much. In fact on one of those live streams recently We were talking and I think we got the mudfighter and the mud buster mixed up mudfighter mud buster, you know Although they're completely different kinds of vehicles. It says keep up the good work And if it wasn't for you my knowledge of gi Joe would only Be they are just a toy. Thanks again Justin Luby Jock hard iron. Thank you very much and I Thank you for being here guys like Like Justin really keep me motivated to keep going I enjoy making the videos. They do take up a lot of time I always wish I had more time to put more into them, but I do the best I can but you know being joined by By people who appreciate the hobby and that still love and enjoy gi Joe and who are Interested in going on this journey with me that really makes it worthwhile So I thank you for this and thank you for helping this helps get a review ready to go Let's move on to the boxes and I've already cut all the boxes open so that'll be easier to open up and show you what's in them and Brandon Knight has been very eager for me to open the two boxes that he sent so I'm gonna do those now The first one that came in was this one in a priority mailbox. I have cut the end open I have not pulled it out. It's very light. It's very light. So he may have sent cash Don't send cash. That's not necessary if it's cash. I'm gonna send it back. Don't send cash Let's see what it is. I see bubble wrap It is well wrapped and I have to say okay good. I have to say When you're sending anything not just to me, but to anywhere make sure you You wrap it well make sure you pack it well because Sometimes I get boxes and it looks like UPS or USPS has drop kicked them like this one right here It was all dented when I got it. I'm sure it wasn't sent like that when it was sent So I'm just saying USPS they're charging more to ship stuff and they are drop kicking boxes It looks like so protect the things that you're ascending. Okay, so Brandon's box has something class in bubble wrap. I do not know what it is. Let's see It is well wraps It's still going Still can't tell what it is. Let's see. Ah, we have a letter and And we have a folder. Oh, this is interesting. Oh and something came out of it and oh it looks like Yeah, it looks like a cobra decal That's pretty sweet and we have a letter from Brandon. Okay, the letter. Oh, and I just saw some Cobra stickers so really awesome stuff. These are really cool And we've got a letter from Brandon that says thanks for all the fun and hard work still amazing all the new stuff We keep learning and fighting with GI Joe. Also the new friends. We keep making is great. Yes, new friends That's the best part for me, but a moment has come But a moment has come at last we can't avoid it anymore. Yes search your feelings. You know, it'd be true Must review the 90s. Yes, that's right in 90s color is back In 90s color, that's the thing that I did for a video You might need sunglasses to get through the refuse now to the bigger item in this folder contains a top-secret projects Not allowed to show the community what the projects are for this I command. Okay, so I can't show you what's in there Oh, it's even labeled. Oh, that's cool. It's even labeled the confidential top-secret Project Cobra, so I can't show you what's in here No matter if the community begs you or even offers you money. Well, it depends on how much money everyone has a price, but we'll see Once you have read files, you must keep them safe and hidden let these files become as Mystery to the community keep up the great work and stay young in your heart and soul your pal Brandon Knight This letter will self-destruct in oaths. It'll self-destruct in five four three two Thank You Brandon, and I won't show anybody, but I'm going to browse through here So this is intriguing obviously that I'm not intended to read these right now I will read over these in more detail later privately and we will keep this secret, so thank you Brandon And yeah, and thanks for the stickers too. These are cool This is it looks like a window decal For Cobra, so this is something I might might actually be able to use that's really awesome So thanks Brandon brand has been a big Friend of the channel for quite some time and he mentions the 90s. Well, as you may know 2019 Has been the year of the rarity lots of very rare things Reviewed this year So we'll probably finish up the year reviewing a few more rare GI Joe items However next year Next year may be the year of the 90s. We got a lot of 90s stuff. We got to get through a lot and Next year next year may be the time that we actually do it So Brandon I may find your notes there quite useful, but thank you for sending that so let's move on Let's go ahead and open Is that it? No, this is it here. Let's open Brandon's other box since he has been Very eager that I open it. So let's do that Just kind of open it so I don't show anybody's address on camera And See this is excellent packing excellent packing the boxes arrived in pretty good shape But you never know you never know which box is gonna be drop-kicked and which will not be so well packed Brandon And we have a letter. Oh, should I read this I think this gives away some of This letter may give away some stuff that's in the box So I won't read this letter right now. We did read this letter later But let's go ahead and open and see what's in. I don't want to spoil it. I want it to be a surprise Okay, oh Wow, okay. Yeah, all right brand cool stuff from Brandon. Let's see Let's see. Now you're gonna get a kick out of this.  Where's my remote be zooming in? There we go. You guys remember these the core? now like this this is Gung-ho international security force I you know what I think This was yeah by Lanard toys. I think Lanard got sued for this by Hasbro I think there was an actual lawsuit Hasbro sued them for using Gung-ho As a label with a bunch of GI Joe like characters. I'm pretty sure that's correct But this is awesome. I mean, they're sealed on card and So cool with Walmart price sticker And like these were it looks like three dollars and fifty-eight cents for three figures So you get three figures for just a little more than you could get one GI Joe figure for and some of the parts were Compatible with GI Joe if you did customizing which we did when we were kids. So that's awesome Brandon Let's see what else we got in here. Let's back this up a little bit, but the core or Gung-ho Really awesome and We've got some some DVDs and these will be oh, yeah see DVDs of the Sunbow series I Had had some DVDs of the Deak series, but I still needed some of the Sunbow series that is like everything it looks like And then the Deak series so this is like Complete or almost complete GI Joe on television in the 80s, which is amazing I do have like the mass device mini series and the Paramount of darkness and those I think I have all of like the early mini series But when it actually picked up as a regular series there, I was missing a few so huge help huge help great for research and Oh check this out. Okay. Hold on. I want to get ahead of myself There's this right. Oh look at that It's one of the Air commandos gliders dig that I Actually had not Dived into air commandos yet these things can be surprisingly pricey but But I kind of think these are working gliders kind of like the Falcon glider and the Viper glider from 1983 these are supposed to be working gliders, but as you can see much smaller Than the gliders from 1983 so more in scale with the figures So awesome. This is another big help and I'm running out of room here Actually, I'm gonna pause this move some things around so I'll have more room to work on my table Okay, spread things out a little bit got a little bit more room to work here All right, let's see. This is a big box and there's a lot in it. So let's go through it and we've got to oh look at that that is a Gijo movie calm rise of cobra Cozy and yes, you know what? I may enjoy a nice cold beverage this evening in my Gijo rise of cobra Cozy now Say what you will about rise of cobra. In fact, I have Had some problems and had a lot of problems, but but One thing that it did a little bit at least is it did keep get people talking about Gijo in a way that they hadn't for a long time It's just too bad. It wasn't a better movie and you know, maybe you can done something with it, but Yeah, but the the fact that the bunch of You know popular Gijo merchandise was out on the shelves at that time was pretty cool And I did really think that was awesome So we have some o-rings, which is great because I was almost out of o-rings. So thank you for that. We've got Missiles and a bipod in there. I will find out what those go to we have another core figure Bengala 1986 Did they package a core figure with a low light backpack or a knockoff of a low light backpack? That's a of course they would of course they would that's awesome. I see. Oh, hey, this is cool Exclusive commemorative edition Gijo this is general Hawk. I believe the male way general Hawk That's cool I Didn't have this figure. It's apparently it's a limited edition because it's numbered. That's awesome This is one that you know, hey, we were talking about Next year being the year of the 90s. This is one that I was actually actively thinking about looking at specifically next year when we dive into a bunch of 90s stuff and We also have These are cool. I I don't care what anybody else thinks. I think these are cool these 30th anniversary Three and three-quarter inch edition hold on let me zoom in a little bit Essentially three and three-quarter inch edition Action soldier action marine Kind of throwbacks to the 60s Figures, there's the action pilot. I dig these. I really really like these And I believe they had a yeah It opened up and you can see the figure and accessories in there Love these I got a couple of these at Joe Fest this year and I wouldn't mind having a whole set And hey, you know, they have flag points So I think technically that fits within the scope of what we review on this channel. I think that fits So these are great incredibly awesome. There is a file card for the Cobra bat Which I needed so I think that one is complete now. I think I'll double-check that We have we have a shadow ninjas Looks like shadow ninjas nunchuck. Is that right? Yes shadow ninjas nunchuck those guys are really Really fascinating to look at So, yeah, you're right Brandon special stuff very special stuff. That's a flak viper and that is A I can't remember. Oh Man, it's just on the tip of my tongue this guy anyway we also have gristle and Astro viper so these are going to be big in 90s reviews and I know some folks find that 90s reviews quite tedious and I understand but We got to do them. We got to do them to accomplish this channel's mission. We got to review everything 1982 to 1994 and these guys are included and Brandon has helped a lot With this box. So thank you very much Brandon. It's very much appreciated and thank you for all of your support Over the years. Okay next I will open this box because it just happens to be on top here This is from Emanuel Henderson. So thank you Emanuel And I am opening the box now And I don't know what's in it and there is a letter a Sealed letter so a sealed letter within a sealed box. Let's let's see what it says here All right Okay, now this letter is a couple pages long So I'm going to pause the video so I can read the letter and I will give you an idea of what is in it Okay, sir. Thank you very much for the letter I will not read this out loud because it does spoil some of the stuff that is in the box And I want you to be surprised by if there's some practical useful things in here Which is excellent because I I can use them so thank you for that and one thing that you did mention is sometimes in collecting The desire to compete with others tends to overshadow the the brotherhood we share and I agree with that and there are some people who Seem to view collecting as a competition and I guess they're welcome to but I never have and I don't think I will and I really much more Enjoy, you know the collaborative effort getting to know people you know Joining a community and and enjoying things rather than you know, trying to beat somebody at collecting something So I appreciate that sentiment and I appreciate the letter. So now let's dig in here and see what some practical things are Inside the box and I see something with some tape and I need to grab my knife really quick Because I will need to cut that open. Hold on pausing one more time. Okay, so we have a box within a box And I have kept the tape on it and this Wrapped very well see you guys are smart. You're wrapping this stuff. Well, yes, these are look like 3d printed Cobra magnetic Little symbols here. Hold on. So they are Magnetic and they have the cobra symbol on it and I dig the colors That's like that's like Cobra Commander version one colors So let's see. I think these are gonna be I Think that's what these are all gonna be. Yeah, but in different colors. Check that out Some almost crimson guard colors The black and red I'm a huge fan of the black and red I just think goes beautifully together Either was well either was red as dominant or with black Both are really nice. These are gorgeous Thank you for those Brilliant, I'm gonna find a place since they're magnetic. I'm gonna find a place to stick them We have I don't knock over this because I know what it is but this these are File card protectors and they're just the right size for G. I. Joe file cards These are great. I have some fairly rare file cards that I don't have protectors for Huge help. This goes right along with Brandon sending o-rings these things You may not necessarily think about especially if you you don't collect Toys if you don't collect you I Joe you may not think about like how you store these things and you know How you protect them stuff like this and you know, sometimes it can run Kind of high you can spend as much on the storage things as you do on the the toys themselves These are figure stands. They are Yeah, they are the like the clear round figure stands. These are nice They take up less space than the rectangular figure stands the standard ones that we use So excellent really cool supplies. It supplies Also, I love supplies And this says photos no bend. I will no bend the photos Yes this Look at this. This is a two-in-one This is both editions of the Day Simone guide I do have up on my shelf an old copy of the first one that I've had for years and I've used for years And but I never had the second edition which basically finishes out the line Because the first one ended in I think 1992 and the last couple years We're not in it. So there was a second edition for the last couple years and I think also included like the Hall of Fame This is really nice. It's so crisp. It's so like it's This beautiful. It's beautiful two books in one Collecting and completing your GI Joe figures volumes one and two Chris Cardillo and James Day Simone Gorgeous. I love it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And now we have this which Oh, oh, oh Okay, this is This is hold on I got to get this open I may have to pause the video because I need to take the wrapping off It's a it's a good idea because it was actually time for me to replace what I was using before This is a folder for fan mail The mail that I say that I keep All those letters that you send me that I never throw away. That's true I have them in a big envelope and that envelope is getting Too big. It's too filled and I needed something like this beautiful thing For your fan mail that you send. Um, wow That is Very nice. Oh and look at that. It's got it's got dividers so I can organize things that is That's extremely thoughtful extremely extremely thoughtful. Thank you for that. Um, and I think that's it No, that's not it. That's not it um yes, um Some guerrilla glue This because I broke the um The ninja lightning. Um, and so this This will help me repair those little those little breaks that happen from time to time So thank you for that very practical stuff very practical very useful Um, and I believe that's it except this Looks like there's something wrapped in here. This may just be A protector for the bottom. I don't think this is Oh, no, no Yeah, this is part of yeah, this is something you mentioned in In The letter Um Very well wrapped. I commend your packing skills Yes I dig that see I'm getting more artwork for the studio And so the studio is going to look great that is framed and Yeah, that's like That is a gorgeous shot of the team with vehicles and uh That that's that's beautiful. That's beautiful. Well. Wow. This is this is really special. Um Another special box, uh, extremely thoughtful Uh, so thank you for this. Um, I mean, I don't I don't know what else to say. That's just overwhelming You guys have really sent some amazing things. Um this month And I I am humbled that you believe that I'm worthy of this Uh, and so it makes me want to make sure I am so I will I will always try to do my best for you because you deserve it. Thank you very much Okay, I still have a stack of boxes, uh that I moved to the floor. Don't think I had forgotten about them I didn't forget about them. I promise. Uh, so, uh, let's let's let's do this one Uh, this is from jk siege Uh, and let's see what's in it Um, I see something blue Let's see again. Well packed. Well packed Um Intriguing I see some stuff in there, but I see a letter first. Let's let's look at the letter Uh Hello from fred six. Hello fred six not fred 69 Fred six. Thanks for the channel.  Thank you. Uh, and I I really appreciate your support to you. You've been very supportive Um, so, uh, first what we have is a fun school storm shadow now, uh Most you probably go to fun school ronnie for all your fun school needs Um But uh, this is just kind of neat to have this look at that. Um I love fun school stuff. I really do Even though I don't actively collect it But like I'm not trying to get a complete fun school collection But uh getting an item or two like this is so Awesome because I just love looking at the differences Just the way a different company in a different country Approach gi joe and kind of adapted gi joe to their market I love looking at this stuff. It's just really fascinating to me And we've got um We have, um Yes, we have, um We have a hood We have what appears to be a cobra commander hood My goodness and and Yes, we have, uh Yes, we have a cobra t-shirt in the in the royal blue With a cobra commander hood Make sure I'm not losing anything in the bottom there. All right All right So I've been talking about it for years and I have the cobra commander pistol But um I hadn't actually I see how it works I see how it works Hold on. I had not actually, uh Made the effort to do a cobra commander cosplay So I think the hint here is that it's time. I need to do it I need to do the cobra commander cosplay And I love the hood. This is kind of how I was imagining the hood should look If I was going to make a hood. Yeah with the Uh the mask underneath I was going to do something like that But you've beaten me to it and that's just so cool. Um, so as fred six Awesome stuff. Thank you. And thank you for all your support Over a fair amount of time now you've been a friend of the channel for Some time and it's uh, it's very much appreciated. Oh, I almost forgot something Keeping with the theme It's the man himself the hooded cobra commander I still think this is my favorite cobra commander figure. It's just I love it It's it's a cool figure and I didn't have any mailaways when I was a kid So I didn't have this figure as a kid. So this is one that when I started collecting as an adult I really wanted to get because I always wanted it always Friends had it had some friends that had it and I didn't And always wanted it. So, uh, beautiful A beautiful cobra commander with uh With his crotch busted. I get what you mean in the letter now. So, uh, thank you fred six Really awesome stuff and thanks for thanks for being a friend of the channel. Okay next this big one And it is quite big And I have split it uh open on the top so we can open it up and see what it is and we have a letter Uh, good thing. I got something new to put these letters in It says hcc 788. Um, oh, oh it it spoils what's in the box. I don't want to spoil it. I want to read this though Um Um Chris centaur 71 meyer, um, chris centaur 71. Thank you for this. Uh, and now I know what it is. So, um, So, uh, I'll just I'll just pull it out so you can see what it is. Um, it's something big.  There are looks like there are some parts that are Loose, but I'll I'll I'll get them. I'll treat. I'll leave them in the box it is the phantom x19 um stealth fighter with Yeah, ghost rider is in there.  Hold on stick it Stick it to things. Oh and some of the like the drone bombs. So it's got it's got a lot of stuff here. Um But you know what's awesome It's uh, okay. Uh, don't worry. I'll get that missile. This is the variant. Uh, the variant of uh, the the, um handle the switch the thing that puts the The landing gear down if I can do it. It's a little stuck. I won't I won't mess with it right now But anyway, this is the variant. So when I review this, I'll be able to show both of these Uh, they they had another one that they did. This one is just pulled straight out They had another one where you kind of had to pull it down Um, and I don't remember exactly which one was the early one But I think that one was the early one and they changed it. Uh, and made it, uh Um, a little easier. I think so. Yeah, this is awesome gorgeous jet Love it. Uh, the pilot the missile which I dropped on the floor, but I'll pick up Um, and uh, yeah, uh, this is something if I choose to complete it. Um, I feel like I can find the parts for this No problem. Uh, so, uh, chris amazing Awesome. Thank you. This also will help with a uh, a future review Specifically because it's that variation. I was going to need to track that down or right here it is. Thank you very much Okay, all right down to two boxes and remove some of the packing material out of the way This one now this one here. Um, I did peek inside because this is the box that got kind of messed up a little bit Um, in shipping So I want to make sure nothing was broken in here. It's safe. Everything's cool. Everything's fine I just wanted to make sure so, but I will do this one first. This is from jason carrest And we have an envelope and it is labeled hcc 788. I think this is for me So I will open it And we have a letter With some cards in it Uh, yeah, it looks like some business cards Uh And oh in Des Moines, Iowa. Hey, I know somebody in Des Moines, Iowa right now Uh, says I've sent the air defense and and on a t-shirt. I thought uh Oh and a t-shirt. I thought you'd like, uh, don't worry about compensating me for this I'm more than happy to contribute to your youtube channel make gi joe fun and interesting and nostalgic for me And I thank you. I've taken the liberty of Enclosing our local shops business cards. So this is your local shop. Cool Um, if you or any of your viewers make it to the Des Moines area Uh, I may make it to the Des Moines area in the near future actually Um, check them out. I It'll be on the agenda. Um, they sell a lot of different things almost always see something new Um From a toy line long forgotten It's a trip sincerely jason. Thank you jason. Uh, and thanks for this actually that's really useful Because my hope is to in the near future be in that area So, um, let's see. This is packed well And yeah, this is Something, you know, you may not think this is a big deal, but for me it is because It's been a missing piece in my collection like forever. This is the air defense unit And it's here the other pieces here Pull them out carefully this thing I I mean, I I don't know why I hadn't just gotten it. Um, it's not a rare piece But it's just one that I just it's It's just eluded me. Um, I didn't find one In the past that I thought was either the right price or in Good enough condition and this looks great. Uh, this is looks great. So again, this Oh, sorry for a future review. Um, all the parts are there And I just I kind of dig this thing. I I always have been fascinated by the Uh, the details on it. Um And so thanks. Thanks for this big help Everything that helps me get ready for a review is a big help. Um, and I I promise you there's Large or small it's all appreciated very very much And uh, this is the t-shirt. Oh, that's cool Oh, I see what it is. Oh dig that It's the stinger It's the it's the emblem on this the cobra stinger from 1984. That's gorgeous I love it and black and red. Perfect. Perfect. Um, now, this is great. Absolutely love it. Thank you very much Thank you. Thank you. Okay, this final box From james thompson. Thank you james. Uh, I did peek in it because when I pulled the box out Got it from my po box. Uh, it looked like Somebody had stepped on it. Uh, not your fault But I wanted to make sure everything was safe in there. So it's still it so I confess I do know what's in here, but you're about to be surprised about what's in here Um, this says a couple items for you and oh, uh, you have the tank. Hope you Want tiger force vehicle. Thank you. Uh, please explain an in the universe reason for gijo to have cobra equipment Is it obsolete and only gijo is using it At the time of tiger force or to both joe and cobra use it Also, the treat is for mrs. H cc 788 for putting up with you Thank you. Uh, especially today. She'll probably appreciate that. So that is another letter to keep. Thank you. Uh, and The treat is um, andies mints And I assure you I've kept them in a cool place so that they haven't melted and And she really likes andies mints. So thank you Perfect. Perfect. Um, the thing that is in here Is you'll like this actually two things this Is the cat tank The crimson attack tank Let's zoom in now. You may have seen this uh, recently Uh, but if you've seen it in a video recently then you know how much I love this thing The treads are in beautiful shape As the battery cover is missing the gun cap, but I have one of those um, the Toe hitch is intact. The thing is just clean Um, it's just in great gorgeous shape and I love hey, I guess maybe red and black is the theme for This video. I didn't know it was going to be the theme, but uh, I just I love the red and black Uh gorgeous gorgeous. There's one more thing in here One more thing and that is this which is the tiger force version of the water moccasin Called the tiger something.  That's good. This piece is frequently broken on this vehicle as it usually is on the Uh water moccasin, uh, but it is intact here. So that's very nice Uh, really lovely looking vehicle Now he asked if there is an in-universe reason for g i joe to have cobra vehicles um Basically the way they tried to explain it is these are captured cobra vehicles G i joe and their various um battles against cobra captured these vehicles intact And then repainted them and decided they're going to use them themselves. So I guess this saves taxpayer money, right So every via every vehicle g i joe can steal is a vehicle. They don't have to uh to buy or build so Yeah, but Tiger force It's obviously it's just outlandish. The colors are crazy though bold tiger stripes the yellow the white brown red everything. It's just kind of nutso But it's so visually striking that it still appeals to me a lot. So Uh awesome Really just amazing amazing. Thank you. I almost forgot. I almost forgot a crimson guardian mortal Who just need is another o-ring? Uh, but fortunately brandon sent some o-rings so I can get this guy all fixed up and an army builder to boot Hey, maybe he could be the driver Of the crimson attack tank. I think that would be pretty sweet. So that is everything and that was a lot That was uh, that may have been our biggest month. Um, and I'm very appreciative of people sent things that were personal People sent things that were specifically to help the show and get things ready to review Brandon sent some amazing things including some This can be overwhelming. Um, I I don't ask for things So if you don't want to send any if you have any Reservation at all about sending things in then you don't have to send anything um, but those things that have been sent in are just uh, it's Um, it's overwhelming. Uh, and I can't express to you enough how grateful I am for it. So thank you for that um, if anyone feels like sending anything, um, again the PO box will be on your screen. Uh, do not feel like you have to please never feel obligated to Um, if you do, I'll do a video like this and I'll open things up and show Everyone what you sent. Um, and if I don't get anything then I just won't do a video and that's absolutely fine too Because you know, we still got we still got, um, reviews coming up every sunday Uh, we got still a lot more gi joe stuff to review and we're just gonna keep keep doing it We're gonna keep going until we get it all done. Thank you to everyone who sent things. Thanks to everyone Even if you didn't thank you just for watching I will see you again Maybe for one of these next month, but I'll see you next week With the gi joe toy review. I'll see you then and remember Only gi joe and only cobra Uh, our gi joe and cobra. I'll see you later


The global cyber threat environment, module 11, Iranian cyber operations background, objectives. Once you have completed the readings, lecture, activity, and assessment, you will be able to describe the effect that Stuxnet had on Iran's offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Take the two main pillars of Iran's cyber strategy. Welcome to the global cyber threat environment, module 11. This lecture highlights two main pillars of Iranian cyber strategy, ensuring regime survival through surveillance and information disruption, and creating a well-trained cyber workforce able to engage in both offensive and defensive cyber operations. Iran's focus on developing sophisticated surveillance technologies was born from events during the country's 2009 presidential election. Fed up with arch-conservative policies of President Ahmadinejad, Iranian citizens voted in record numbers, and most polling suggested that a reformist candidate, Mir Hussein Musavi, had won. A few days after the voting, however, the Iranian government announced that Ahmadinejad was victorious by a landslide of 63% of the vote. Many Iranian citizens immediately determined that the election had been rigged, and within a few days, tens of thousands of Iranian youth took to the streets in protest. Government police met them ferociously, prompting the largest public protests the Iranian Republic had experienced since its founding three decades earlier, protests that were banned by the Iranian government. The government eventually regained control of the country, but only after kidnapping, torture and murder of many protest organizers. The Iranian government later researched the event to determine how the protests had spread so quickly. The answer? Nearly one million Iranian citizens had access to smartphones, enabling many to quickly record and share on sites like Facebook and Twitter, videos of protestors being shot or taken to jail by secret police. As a result, the government banned such social media sites. To avoid a repeat performance in the 2013 Iranian presidential election, government officials blocked access to virtual private networks as well so that citizens could not circumvent government firewalls to access the social media sites. This 2009 Green Revolution highlights the logic behind one of the two main pillars of Iranian cyber defense strategy – to ensure regime survival through widespread surveillance and blocking of information deemed subversive. One year later, the effects of Stuxnet, one of history's most powerful cyber weapons, prompted the development of the second pillar of Iranian cyber defense strategy, creating a well-trained cyber workforce for both offensive and defensive cyber operations. The Stuxnet computer worm was designed to affect specific types of industrial control systems manufactured by the Siemens company. The worm was introduced into a nuclear facility in Natan's, Iran, which housed giant centrifuges producing highly concentrated uranium used for nuclear weapon production. After working itself into the industrial systems controlling the centrifuges, the Stuxnet worm could vary the speed of the centrifuges while sending signals to Iranian controllers that they were spinning normally. Most uranium centrifuges must run at highly precise rates. The varying speeds exploded many of the centrifuges, and they had to be replaced. Initially, Iranian scientists believed that operator error or faulty design was to blame. Finally, in 2010, independent cybersecurity analyst investigating the situation determined that the centrifuges had been disrupted by a sophisticated computer worm. No individual or country has ever officially taken responsibility for producing Stuxnet. But the New York Times has reported that, based on its complexity and the likely expense involved in creating it, Stuxnet was almost certainly engineered by a technologically advanced nation state such as the United States. After Stuxnet, the year 2011 and 2012 saw additional malware intrusions into Iranian networks. The Duke malware discovered in 2011 is believed to be related to the Stuxnet worm. It exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and likely was engineered to spy on computer systems. The flame malware discovered in 2012 likely also was engineered for spying, but it was much more sophisticated with abilities to capture audio recordings, keyboard activity, and network traffic and possibly even grab contact information from nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices. The flame malware infected computer systems throughout the Middle East, but Iran suffered the most. In response to these malware intrusions, the supreme leader of Iran ordered the creation of a supreme council of cyberspace to pull the country's cyber talent and stem the damage from the onslaught of malicious attacks. Iran's leadership, determined to prevent future attacks on Iranian critical infrastructure, has likely invested billions of dollars into training a cyber workforce and building cyber defenses. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, is an organization of elite military personnel with the capability to conduct various types of special warfare tactics, both on ground and in the cyber world. Although initial training in computer science and malware takes place within Iran's universities, the IRGC cultivates selected individuals into highly skilled offensive and defensive cyber warriors. Reports are that the IRGC cyber warfare program employs nearly 2,400 people. In addition to the IRGC program, Iran has created a Mahir Center for Information Security that operates as part of its Information Technologies Ministry. The Mahir Center defends Iranian governmental and military networks and conducts research into malware engineering, possibly for use in future attacks. In an offensive move, Iran launched multiple network reconnaissance campaigns to gain proprietary information about the critical infrastructure systems of more than a dozen countries. These efforts targeted oil and gas production, major defense contractors, airports, telecommunications, and even U.S. military installations. In August 2012, Iran initiated a massive counterattack against Saudi Arabia. Using the Shenoon virus, which was partially reverse engineered from the flame malware, Iran corrupted more than 30,000 computers in the Saudi oil company, or a Ramco. A month later, Iran slightly disrupted multiple U.S. banks and even the New York Stock Exchange via distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks. In 2013, Iranian hackers attempted to shut down a large flood control dam in New York state. The FBI has stated that the hackers were working on behalf of the IRGC, and the attack on a dam may have been in retaliation for the United States' suspected role in Stuxnet. The hackers purportedly attempted to access the dam's industrial control system, but could not do so because the system had been disconnected from the internet for routine maintenance. The attempt was unsuccessful, but demonstrates the move that Iran is making from a regional to a global cyber power. Although executing revenge attacks has been somewhat impressive in terms of ingenuity, none have seemed to require an exceptional degree of sophistication. However, experts are now concerned that Iran may develop its offensive cyber capability quickly and markedly. In January 2016, the United States, along with the international community, reached a deal with Iran on its nuclear program. As part of the deal, the majority of previous economic sanctions on Iran were lifted, including its ability to export oil and import advanced technologies. Because the country had already conducted damaging cyber attacks during the sanctions period, and with the effects of decades-long economic sanctions quickly dissipating, Iran will likely be a cyber force to be reckoned with in the near future. Quiz Question 1 – True or False Defeating the United States in an all-out cyber war is the goal of Iran's government. A. True B. False The answer is B. False Quiz Question 2 – True or False The Stuxnet worm specifically targeted computers associated with the Iranian Ministry of Interior. A. True B. False The answer is B. False Activity, whom do you think was behind the creation of the Stuxnet worm? Consider all the domains of knowledge one would have to know to create a worm as sophisticated as Stuxnet and write them down. For instance, what type of programmable logic controllers was used in the Natanz nuclear facility? What type of centrifuges was believed to be used? Include in your summary how you think the worm's creators managed to jump the air grab supposedly protecting the computers at the Natanz facility. After you have finished your list, estimate how many man hours it must have taken to create the code for Stuxnet.


This place is amazing. This venue is incredible. I'm so excited to be here this morning with you to talk about progressive web apps, but I'm an American, and so I would be excited about something, I guess. But I think it's legitimate to be excited about this, because we've got two incredible days of talks. We've got code labs. We've got experts here, not just Chromeys, my fellow engineers from Chrome, but also folks from other browser vendors and engineers who are making progressive web apps in the world. Some of the world's best experts who are engineers just like you making this stuff are going to be here to share their expertise and what they've learned over the past year. It's going to be great. So at Chrome Dev Summit last fall, we promised that we would have a Chrome Dev Summit in Europe and this summer, and we're breaking that promise, because we thought better of it. We thought that instead of a Chrome Dev Summit, we should have something that was more inclusive. The web is bigger than Google, it's bigger than Chrome, it's bigger than any single platform or browser vendor, and so that's why we've done the progressive web app summit instead. We renamed it, and we're incredibly glad that, as Paul mentioned, our partners from Mozilla, Opera, Samsung, Microsoft, basically everybody is here, and it's great. And as I mentioned, I'm an engineer on the Chrome team. I lead both the engineering side of the team that's building the progressive web app stuff, but also the standard side. And as somebody's been on the Chrome team for a long time, let me assure you that building and distributing native software is a real pain. I've been on the Chrome team since before there were 1% of people in the world using Chrome. We had to fight really hard to get Chrome into people's hands. You have to convince them to go download it, and then once they've downloaded, they have to click on the thing and run the installer, and once they've run the installer, they have to then choose to use your application. The same thing is true in native application platforms of any time. You still have to convince users to go find your thing, download it, install it, and then choose to run it. That's a massive challenge for any company that's trying to make forward progress. Although it used to be a lot harder. This is how when I was a kid, my family acquired most of its software.  So it used to be a much longer journey to get software. So when I went to college, it was a revolution that we were able to use CDs for almost everything. Many fewer disks to swap. And when I got there, at one point, I got for $5 from the bookstore, the college bookstore, I got a copy of Microsoft MapPoint. Now, if you hadn't used MapPoint, it's okay, not many people had, but MapPoint was a bit of consumer GIS software. You could have a map on your computer that you could pan and zoom around. It only took 30 minutes to install, but it was an enormously transformative experience. You could just zoom around the entire world if you needed to. Yes, the data got out of date, but it transformed the way I planned trips. Especially road trips, kind of an American thing, but very timely for me in college. And at the time, web-based experiences just couldn't compete. If you clicked on the link to go to a bit to the left, you then sort of waited and then, oh, there it was. Even though the network was pretty fast, you still sort of did this stuttering back and forth. It just couldn't compete. It was this big cliff between what you could do in native and what you could do on the web. Then Google Maps happened. We eventually got pan and zoom on the web. It worked on any computer, not just the ones I had spent time installing the software on, and the data was never out of date. Maybe it wasn't entirely complete, but it kept continuously getting better.  It just was always fresh. So when the web is capable of delivering a particular experience, it can compete. Our distribution model is actually better. Links are the web's superpower. So, okay, quick, I can see everyone. So a quick, raise your hand if you use the web to get to maps on your desktop or laptop computer, yeah? Okay, now keep your hand out. That's almost everyone. Keep your hand up if you use the web to get to maps on your phone. Okay, so less, okay, yeah, okay, 10%. Sure. That's about what I thought. So we don't really use the web on mobile the way we used it on desktop. But remember that we started with native apps on desktop too. So what we needed to break the log jam between native and the web on desktop was some enabling technology. And Ajax was that enabling technology. It allowed us to move data in as you panned and zoomed around the experience. We did the exact same thing for email. I don't know about you, but I moved almost all of my mail consumption to a web browser on the desktop, but I'm using a native app on my phone. So why haven't we made the same transition on mobile? You know, I think just to reinforce how big the size of this cliff is, today, users are spending almost 90% of their time on mobile devices in native applications. Why is that? Well, one theory is that maybe the re-engagement features that native apps have had keep users in those experiences or draw them back into it, things like being on the home screen or notifications that can be persistently in your notification tray. But it's a huge amount of time and it's hugely concentrated. If you haven't won the lottery for native applications, you're probably not going to because users are spending 80% of their time in the top three apps. That's 80% of that 87%. This is a huge winner take all dynamic, which we didn't necessarily see on the web. If only native apps can be engaging and only a few can make it on native, why hasn't the web disrupted this? It often takes more money to distribute a native app to a user on native platforms, then you'll get back from that user. Like native app developers are suffering. Why hasn't the web disrupted this? So I think it's worth the thinking back again, you know, a decade or so to think about how we used to get web experiences. I don't know about you, but this is how I got web pages. You dial one of these up. You go to the bit of your house that had the computer in it and you'd put the computer into online mode and you'd eventually wind up yelling up or down the stairs to your friends and family, like don't pick up the phone, you're going to interrupt my download. This was tough, but we knew we were in online mode and the web grew up in an online mode. We could always assume that that next navigation, that next transition, no matter how slow it was the first time, was going to be the same speed the next time. But that's not how phones work. Phones, even when they look like they're online, they often aren't. Radios transition wildly underneath us. The network isn't reliable. We can't assume that it is. HX got us to good enough because we were always connected, but what about now when we're not always connected? When I'm on a mobile phone and I tap something from my home screen, I never see one of these. Apps always load.  They have this UX contract that they'll never fail to load if they're on my home screen. The web hasn't been able to do this. We've also made the keyboard and mouse to tap and swipe transition, but I think one of the biggest issues here is that we haven't really earned our place in the home screen. Because web technology can't be reliable and can't be reliably fast, it's reasonable for users not to include us in their daily experience. So one way to think about this is there's an access here of capability. Now, native apps have the ability to start up reliably. They can be fast all the time. They can do offline. They can handle push messages. They can synchronize in the background. They've got access to all the sensors. While the web is safer and more respectful of your privacy, but it doesn't have some of those capabilities. It isn't on your home screen. It isn't in your notification tray. But what if we had another access? We'll add reach. The web succeeds wildly here, even in the situation where users are spending only 13 to 14 percent of their time on their phones, on the web. They're visiting more than 100 sites a month. Meanwhile, ComScore says that the average user is downloading zero apps a month in the U.S. This is the power of URLs. We can absolutely meet those one-off needs. And we do. We are always in the user's experience, even if they don't realize it. So what we want is a way to go from incredible reach to be more engaging, to have those capabilities. So what is that thing? I think we can meet those user expectations today on the web. And that's what progressive web apps represent. They're finally the ability for us to earn our place in the home screen and in the notification tray. First, by providing reliable experiences that are consistently fast. And we don't have to give up the reach to get it. That's the promise of the web. And that's why I'm excited about progressive web apps. So what do these experiences look like? So here's the washingtonpost.com slash PWA. You can go do it on your phone right now, wapo.com slash PWA. And it loads in a tab like any other site. And if you go to it enough, if you engage with it, you'll eventually get this add to home screen prompt in Chrome for Android. So if you tap on that link, the browser will confirm to you that you've done it. And if you go back to your home screen, you'll see that there's now a home screen icon. When you tap on that icon, it's beautifully fast. And it'll launch with a splash screen. That splash screen is a full screen immersive experience. And the whole app runs that way. And if you go into the task switcher, what you'll see is that it's first class there too. There's no URL bar getting in the way. It's exactly like a native app in that sense. So what was missing to be able to deliver this experience? Because we finally earned it. Well, first we need reliability and reliable performance. And next, we need to be in the notification tray. And lastly, once we're trustworthy and have reliable performance, we need to be able to have enough metadata about the site to be able to generate that add to home screen prompt to put it on the home screen. Okay. So there's talk today and tomorrow covering all of the required technologies to get to that point. TLS, which is imperative and HTTPS, manifests, service workers, push notifications, smooth UIs, and much, much more. And I'm excited that we've been able to work with other browser vendors over the past three years to deliver these technologies to you. They're already shipping in Chrome, Opera, Firefox. It's amazing stuff, and they're going to be an edge soon. So the web is bigger than any vendor or single platform. It gives you that incredible reach, and we're bringing this stuff to every browser. So, but I just want to focus for a second on reliable performance. We all know the faster is better. And if we have to traverse the network, we can almost never be fast, specifically a mobile network, where getting the radio initialized can take two seconds. The data from SOASTA that you just saw really confirms that correlation between speed and bounce rate. But we see that a three-second delay can bounce 40% of users. It's really tough out there if you're trying to deliver great experiences on the mobile web. So what if we weren't necessarily going to have our connection eaten by the offline dinosaur? What if, if a user goes to the site, it could be reliable after that? That's exactly what service workers are. They provide an in-browser, programmable network proxy, so that users can always get to something on your site, the second, third, and fourth times they visit. If they are willing to reengage with you, they can always get to your experience. And you can use your own cache to do it. You can always boot up without ever hitting the network. You can provide an experience from local data. This is exactly what native apps do, and this is transformative for the way we deliver reliably performant experiences. So what about that first visit? Well, the search team has been thinking about this because there's a epidemic of obesity on the web. And they came up with AMP. AMP is a format that uses custom elements, HTML custom elements, web components, to keep you from doing most of the things that really hurt the user experience. And it delivers incredibly fast initial loads. They're seeing median one less than one second load times from the AMP documents on their CDN, which is generally four times faster than the same document hosted in a different format, and it's often 10 times less data. That's pretty great. So what if there was a way to go from that fast first load using AMP to that reliable performance, that immersive experience with progressive web apps? So here's an example of the Washington Post. Today, if you go to Google News and you see that AMP carousel and you go to an article, you'll be reading it inside the CDN hosted version. So it's not on the Washington Post servers, but while you're reading it, the AMP install service worker element will go and install the progressive web app bootstrapped service worker from the Washington Post. So now, if I click a link from this article out to someplace at the Washington Post, instead of the offline dinosaur, I'll get a reliable service handled by the service worker, and it'll load instantly. This is pretty great. So this is also leading edge stuff, and it's been hard to do until recently. DevTools are evolving very fast, and this is the new application tab in Canary and Chrome Dev, which helps verify some of this stuff, but as good as this is, wouldn't it be great if there was a way to do this at the command line or in your CI? That's what Lighthouse is for. Lighthouse is an exciting new tool that gives you a Chrome extension if you want it, that can help verify that you've met all the requirements to get to that add to home screen prompt, and it's also available in a command line form so you can run it as part of your continuous integration. So there's a ton of new capabilities that are coming to the web that unlock other sorts of applications once we've earned that right to be on the home screen. There's too many to talk about. I'm incredibly excited about WebAssembly and what WebGL are two are going to do this year for games and what media capture and streams are going to do for social use cases, but there's two specific capabilities I want to talk to you about that you'll hear more about later today from Chris Wilson that I think are going to really, really make it so that the web is a first class citizen. The first is the web payments API and the credentials API follows that. So web payments, what's that? So web payments is a way for you to not have to fill out forms with the worst keyboards in the world when you want to check out on the web. It lets you do one tap checkout using cache data that the browser already has. So here, for instance, is a Shopify checkout flow. I can tap the checkout button and then I'll get a pre-populated list without ever having to fill that stuff in. And if it looks good, I can tap it and then I'll be getting a confirmation screen. It all worked. I didn't have to enter any new data. That's pretty great. In fact, if Android Pay or some other system provided payment instrument is available and the site supports it, this can go as simple as a single tap or a confirmation. I think this as a standards-based way to get this capability available pervasively. Shipping this year is so exciting. Similarly, the credentials API is going to also remove a bunch of typing and tapping and autofill corrections and all that stuff that isn't great to do on phones. Like native apps, we'll be able to do one tap sign-in. If the site knows who the user is, it'll be able to request using existing system credentials that the user log in. And that can be a single tap. In fact, if the user has already been there, this can be automatically done. This is going to accelerate how we deliver first-class experiences on the web, in addition to all the progressive web app technology that browsers are already shipping. Now, you might ask, how is that stuff doing? And I'd say well, but I think I'm incredibly biased. But you don't take my word for it. To tell you more about how it's actually going, I'd like to invite my colleague, Tao Tran, from the partnerships team to take a look at how progressive web apps are performing in the real world. Thanks. So as Alex mentioned, I work in global product partnerships for the Chrome and web platform team. So that means I get a chance to talk with lots of different companies and sites and to tell them about all the new web capabilities today, building progressive web apps that are going to be reliable, fast, and engaging experiences. And I often spend a lot of time with partners thinking about helping them think through how do you develop a mobile-first strategy for the web. So Alex really walked through a ton of new capabilities that are available today and you'll hear a lot more over the next couple of days. So the whole point of coming to these conferences is that we want you to get excited and motivated to really want to build new things, to start digging into these APIs, tinkering with all this new stuff. And so it's kind of like a kid kind of playing around with a new toy. And so this is my three-year-old the first time we introduced Plato to him and he thought the possibilities were endless in terms of all the things that he could make. So I had to choose between a kitten or my son, so I decided to go with my son. So, you know, he's like being extremely creative. He even was trying to convince me that green Plato pizza was going to be so good. And so this is the type of energy and creativity that we want you to bring back to your teams and to your company. But I also realize is that the reality is that when you get back to your companies, you're probably going to have to pitch and talk about how you want to start a web project. I know many of you have probably already started looking at these technologies and you may be getting questions from different people inside your org, like how much time is this going to take? How many resources it's going to take? What's the ROI?  And I hear it a lot from our partners. And so what I want to do is actually give you a framework for how you can think about you know, building the case for investing in the web. And so oftentimes, I think the dreaded question that every developer, you know, gets is, okay, build me a business case for why you want to do this project. And as a developer, that's kind of code for actually don't try anything new. So you start feeling like this. So for those of you who have kids, I think this is a very familiar, this is when he's in a tantrum mode, when I ask him to do something and he doesn't want to do it. But in all seriousness, we want to help you build a case for the web. And the goal is to walk away from the next couple of days where you can actually talk about new capabilities and make the case for why it's critical to invest in the web platform. So I thought about all the learnings I've gotten and all the feedback I've gotten from, you know, all the different partners across the world. And when people say, hey, I have to prioritize this, I need to figure out how this fits into my roadmap, it basically boils down to two critical questions. Why is this important? And how do we get started? And a lot of times, partners just want to have an understanding of, you know, what are some numbers that you can share and what are different approaches so that this feels accessible and feels like I can scope this for my team. And so to talk about what's important or why is this going to be important, I'll just give kind of a brief overview of some key metrics that folks on the business side often like to think about, reach, acquisition and conversion. So the first one is reach. And here we'll just take a look at the overall mobile web market and see if it's growing. Alex talked about how people are spending so much time in apps. And so what we want to take a look is just to see what the mobile web audience looks like. So we'll take a look at some of the Chrome numbers that we announced last month. So Chrome announced that we now have a billion monthly active users on mobile alone. This is incredible for a couple of reasons. One, for those of you who may not know, Chrome on mobile was only came out about four years ago. And this time last year, this number was only 400 million monthly active. And so what you're seeing is that there's tremendous rapid growth on the mobile web. And then we look at reach, drilling down to more site level data. ComScore data, taking a look at the top thousand apps and websites and comparing monthly traffic for apps, native apps versus the web. And not surprising, it's two and a half times that, the reach of the mobile web is two and a half times that of apps. You can probably see it in your own numbers. So it's worth kind of digging in to understand what your overall mobile web, mobile traffic is, and then break it down between your web and app. And anecdotally, I've heard partners say somewhere between 50 to as high as 90 percent of their mobile traffic actually is on the mobile web. So now let's just spend another minute on acquisition. So you have this incredible reach and you still need to bring users to your site. And this often sits with the marketing team, or your growth teams. But when you're trying to make a case for investing in the web, you should understand all the different forces at play here. And so with acquisition, oftentimes you're probably paying to get users to your site. So it was really cool when we saw that Celio, which is a platform for buying and selling goods, it's a startup, actually publishes that about user acquisition costs. They started building a progressive web app and then saw that the engagement numbers between progressive web apps and their native app was comparable. And so then he, the CEO started digging into, well, if it's comparable from an experience standpoint, how much is it costing me to get a user into my native app versus the mobile website? It turns out it was 10 times cheaper to get a user onto their mobile web experience. So for those of you who are familiar with the acquisition costs, this is probably no surprise, but it was really great to see someone dig into the numbers and then share it publicly. And so the next piece after conversion, I mean after acquisition is, are my users converting? So it's awesome, I've reached the coming in and, but am I actually getting them to frequent my site more or conversion could also be defined as completing a transaction when the money really comes in. So AliExpress launched a progressive web app last month during IO and it was incredible to see within days of them rolling out their progressive web app experience. They saw huge increases in engagement numbers, two times more page views, 74% increase in overall time spent across all browsers. And what was telling was, we often get the question about Safari on iOS and is this going to be a good experience across the board, especially if they don't yet support progressive web app features. So we actually asked AliExpress to dig into their conversion numbers which they saw increase across the board but to segment it for iOS specifically or Safari specifically and they also saw an 82% more conversions on iOS and it just shows that AliExpress already had a good mobile experience but they continue to invest in it to make it more engaging and fast and immersive and their iOS users also benefit. So it's just good all around to actually invest in your mobile web experience and to make sure that you know, you actually deliver experience to users on all platforms. And so this really cemented, I love this quote that from the head of mobile at AliExpress where she really just talks about investing in the web experience across all browsers and not only did they see huge benefits on browsers that support progressive web app features, they saw a bump across the board and it's just a sign of a really great investment and they'll know it'll pay off once other browsers continue to evolve and ship these APIs. And so this is a model that I thought was really great. I can't take credit for it, my colleague put this together. So when you think about all your potential reach bringing people in hopefully at lower acquisition costs or likely at lower acquisition costs for the web and then your improving conversion start to take a look at these numbers and they add up to pretty good math, profitable math I assume. And so this is just a way for you to think about why it's so important and why it's great to invest on the web. And so then the next question and this is one of the tougher questions to try to handle is how do we get started? So a lot of people say to us you know these technologies seem really intimidating especially as I'm talking to my management team. So how do I... So do I have to convince my team to do a complete overhaul? And the short answer is no. Alex painted a picture of what's possible. You know giving you a vision of where we want the entire mobile web to go with these amazing experiences but we also recognize that it's complicated to bring in these new technologies especially at larger companies where you have sites with legacy code and architecture and so we want you to think about this as an ongoing journey to invest and build on the web. And so the first step is HTTPS which Alex already alluded to and my colleague Emily Schechter will talk about kind of myth-busting through HTTPS later today but it's critical because all these new features will only be available over HTTPS so it's not already on your roadmap it should be. So now I want to walk you through partner examples and how they've actually approached building and experimenting with all these new web technologies. So the first one is starting from the ground up. So this is, you know, when you're able to just rethink or reimagine what your mobile web experience should be. I know very few sites actually get the opportunity to do this but when you do you really are able to unlock so many of the capabilities of service worker and all these amazing features. And so I want to talk about Conga. Conga is actually one of the largest e-commerce players in Nigeria and they decided to do a rethink of their mobile web experience and just build and basically build a progressive web app that was going to be very comparable to their native experience. And actually the director of engineering Andrew is going to lead a session talking about how Conga is approaching their progressive web app building tomorrow. But what was really great to hear yesterday was that this was a cross-platform effort even though they were building a progressive web app their iOS and Android teams really collaborated to make sure it really truly was an app like experience on the web. And so the Conga experience you know not surprisingly is focused on being fast and performance and reliable and the most critical thing for their users is making sure it doesn't use a lot of data. And so in early testing they saw that for initial load it actually used comparing to their native app experience it used 92% less data for their progressive web app and then that critical moment of converting the user to actually completing a transaction they saw that it actually used 82% less data as compared to their native app. So again seeing terrific stats when you're able to kind of invest end to end and then start from the ground up. But we also know I mean as I mentioned it's really hard to catch a company at a moment when they're actually going to rebuild something or going to change you know architectures or frameworks. And so I want to offer why don't you build a simple version and a couple of examples of how that's being done. So Air Berlin did this demo at IO which I thought was terrific. They knew they couldn't change the entire site experience and so they thought about well is there a segment of my site that I can change or convert into a progressive web app and here they looked at the post booking experience. So imagine like so the pain point I think that we all recognize is that when you're at the airport you're frenzied you want to just easily be able to access your boarding pass your itinerary information maybe your destination information but the connectivity is pretty unreliable and so they wanted to have this customer journey details available offline and so they used they leveraged service worker caching to enable this and what they saw was that the initial loading time was less than a second because they've done a ton of optimizations but even faster with service worker for subsequent loads and so even if you're offline or you land and you're in another country where you don't have Wi-Fi access all your destination and itinerary details are available on your device. So Alex talked a lot about the Washington Post earlier and you know we got a lot of questions about how do they you know why do they build this you know when are they going to transition into a bigger or a more productionized site and so the posts you know what they wanted to do was they wanted to do a public live demo to show what's possible so they took their top stories news feeds and said you know let's go ahead and just build this really fast immersive experience and they wanted to be able to show it off publicly but also internally as you know folks who are in publishing newsrooms different people in advertising their executives and what they saw was that you know everyone is obsessed with speed at the post and in their Progressive Web App they saw article page loads times inside the Progressive Web App hit 80 milliseconds so now that's the bar and that's the use experience they want to deliver and I'm happy to say they're actively exploring a roadmap of how they're going to evolve this to that it's going to be available to a broader set of their mobile web audience but even sometimes building a simple version or getting a site or a section of your site to a Progressive Web App could also be hard and so we've seen people just focus on a feature pick an API or a feature that you believe will have high impact for both users and your business so the weather company folks we know if you're familiar with Weather.com you know they've been looking at Progressive Web Apps for a while and all these technologies and what they wanted but they were asked to prioritize what's the one feature that's really going to be great you know ROI and so they decided to go after web push notifications and what's really great is that they went big on this one feature they launched about a month and a half ago and they actually launched in 30 languages globally with web push notifications and what you see here is actually the how you can decide which type of notifications you want local, national or government issued alerts by the way these are all notifications that are available in their app so they basically made it parity with the web or make the web on par with what app notifications were and then booking.com as you know a major travel player where you know they had been looking at all these technologies and they ideally I guess we could try to build a full Progressive Web App but that doesn't work for their business they're extremely data driven they test everything and so they needed to work in small steps so that they're able to tackle different issues learn things quickly test and optimize and so Jesse Yang who is quoted up here is going to actually lead a session tomorrow talking about bookings approach on their journey to building a Progressive Web App and so I really want to you know emphasize that everyone will take their own path whether it's building from the ground up doing a simple simplified version or using a single feature there's no one size fits all and I want to make sure that you do the path that's right for you and so that it feels accessible so these are just a sample of partners globally who have started shipping or actively looking at these Progressive Web App technologies and again no one partner has done the same approach they've again modified it and really thought about what's important for their users and their business as they're thinking about investing in the web and to help you with this journey of building Progressive Web Apps we're pleased to announce that Udacity now has a nano degree program and it's an extension of the senior web developer nano degree where it's a short series of classes and projects and then you'll complete when you complete the course you'll be able to architect and build app like experiences on the web so in closing I guess I did have to include a cat in here but in the corner so it's amazing to see so many people here I was just commenting to the Chrome team backstage that this time last year we were just talking about service worker and the web push API and Progressive Web App as a term was still being socialized and so it's incredible that I'm standing here today about a year later where we have a dev summit dedicated to Progressive Web Apps so we've got an exciting lineup as Alex walked through so hopefully you'll stay for all the different sessions and at the end of it we want you to leave the Progressive Web App Dev Summit really inspired and confident about building the case for the web and more importantly we want you to go build something great thank you