EduTechnorama

I’ve alluded in a previous post about the fact that the typical request-view-reload experience for web pages is capable of becoming a thing of the past with the advent of properly programed and usable web experiences via what has been coined as Rich Internet Applications. What this means is that your typical desktop user experience for a program reports an immediate response in updating the UI (user interface) so that the interactions signal to the user that they are getting something done in the browser. Read on for more of what I mean…

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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress

This is not news since I just stumbled on this, and it turns out that this has been going on this whole year: the Flickr Commons. It’s a way to obtain references or use of images that have no copyright restrictions or at least been put into the public domain. This is an example of one from the WWII era (a period I’m really starting to enjoy learning about).