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From YouTube: #TBT: 1996 CityLife
Description
Welcome to City Channel Pittsburgh's Throwback Thursday series! We will upload a new episode each Thursday morning.
This week, we're going back to 1996. CityLife was a monthly program focusing on the people, events, and issues in and around the City of Pittsburgh. On this episode of CityLife, we did a spotlight on the Hill House and how it was teaching Pittsburgh residents about the world wide web and the information superhighway.
A
The
information
highway,
an
interconnection
of
thousands
of
computers
through
phone
and
cable
lines,
allowing
access
to
a
vast
sea
of
information
with
the
stroke
of
the
key
one,
can
send
and
receive
volumes
of
information
at
phenomenal
speeds
throughout
the
world.
Once
the
subject
of
science
fiction
novels,
it
is
now
reality
and
fast
becoming
a
part
of
our
everyday
lives.
Today,
thanks
to
the
hill
house
community
access
network,
the
information
superhighway
is
winding
its
way
through
the
hill
district,
placing
the
world
at
the
fingertips
of
its
residents.
A
The
hill
house
community
access
network
consists
of
a
number
of
sites
throughout
the
community
that
provide
a
place
for
residents
to
go
for
computer
training
and
access
to
electronic
mail
systems.
Every
hill
district
resident
has
the
opportunity
to
surf
the
net
free
of
charge,
funded
in
part
by
the
city's
Weed
and
Seed
effort.
The
hill
house,
community
access
network
provides
the
location,
the
equipment
and
the
training
to
Hill
District
residents
interested
in
learning,
hi-tech,
computer
technology,
pittsburgh.
B
B
A
The
hill
house
is
responsible
for
the
management
of
the
network
that
currently
serves
the
hill
districts,
six
public
schools
and
four
other
public
access
sites;
youth,
fair
chance
located
on
Bedford
Avenue,
new
beginnings,
Learning
Center
on
Robinson
Street
in
West
Oakland
grace,
Memorial,
Presbyterian,
Church
on
Bryn
Mawr
road
in
wodsworth,
Hall
in
the
Aliquippa
Terrace
public
housing,
community
Carl,
redwood
assistant,
director
of
the
hill
house
association,
oversees
the
network
and
knows
the
importance
of
bringing
high
technology
to
the
community.
As.
C
You
look
at
to
you
television
or
you
read
magazines.
Now
you
see
more
and
more
reference
to
the
internet
and
different
addresses
and
little
codes
and
things
that
may
not
make
quite
make
sense
here.
You
can
come
to
help
make
sense
out
of
this
new
lingo
or
this
new
language
that
is
infused
with
the
advanced
technology.
In
addition
to
that,
in
addition
to
just
becoming
familiar
with
technology,
we
really
hope
that
we
cultivate
a
group
of
folks
that
not
just
get
familiar
we've
become
experts.
A
Today,
over
five
hundred
Hill
District
residents
from
elementary
school
students
to
senior
citizens
are
utilizing
the
computer
lab
at
the
hill
house.
Community
groups
use
the
internet
to
share
information
with
other
communities.
Young
adults
use
the
lab
to
brush
up
on
their
typing
and
computer
skills.
Adults
come
to
the
lab
to
surf
the
net
for
job
opportunities
for
a
variety
of
reasons.
The
hill
house,
community
access
network
has
become
a
valuable
tool.
D
E
Hill
house
computer
lab
has
several
programs.
We
have
an
after-school
program
from
3
to
6
the
consists
of
children
from
the
ages
6
to
11.
We
also
have
an
internet
email
class,
the
internet,
email
class.
We
train
five
at
a
time
because
we
want
to
make
sure
everybody
understands
and
has
hands-on
experience.
You
have
a
lot
of
seniors,
it's
exciting
to
see
them
they
come
in
and
then
they
say:
honey
I've,
never
been
in
front
of
a
computer.
A
New
beginnings,
Learning
Center,
an
outgrowth
of
the
friendship
ministries,
youth
program
open
six
years
ago.
Its
mission
is
to
provide
more
than
recreational
activities,
but
gives
students
a
helping
pan
with
their
educational
needs.
New
beginnings
has
route
tutoring
a
one-on-one
mentoring
program
in
computer
classes,
all
of
which
help
prepare
children
for
the
future.
We.
F
Teach
a
project
oriented
curriculum
students
will
accomplish
a
project
on
the
computer
and
through
this
they
learn
computer
skills
using
a
mouse
word.
Processing
and
they'll
also
use
the
skills,
they're
learning
at
school,
math
skills
and
English
skills
of
reading
skills,
so
we're
trying
to
not
only
give
them
computer
literacy
but
also
literacy.
That's
going
to
help
them
in
all
other
kinds
of
situations.
G
They
do
web
projects,
were
they
they
do
research,
one
child
did
that
school
project.
For
herself.
She
had
a
an
assignment
where
she
needed
to
write
on
the
first
black
woman
astronaut.
This
was
for
Black
History
Month
and
no
one
had
written
much
on
the
first
black
woman
astronaut.
So
we
looked
in
books
and
we
looked
everywhere.
We
couldn't
find
anything
so
we
went
to
the
web
and
we
looked
under
NASA
and
sure
enough.
They
had
open
information
and
she
downloaded
that
summarized
information
scanned
a
picture
of
this
woman
in
Chicago
named.
A
B
Mayor,
as
you
know,
is
very
committed
to
empowering
neighborhoods,
to
sharing
the
information
of
government
to
be
a
little
bit
more
democratic
about
the
partnership,
so
that
the
communities
can
begin
to
define
for
themselves
what
are
important
things
to
do
and
what
stands
in
relation
to
what,
as
a
need,
what's
interesting
about
this
model?
Is
its
functioning?
We're
not
we're
not
anymore.
At
that
the
point
where
we
have
to
say:
hey,
guess
what
we're
going
to
do,
we're
doing
it
and
the
neighbors
are
doing
it.
C
We're
looking
ahead
in
terms
of
our
vision
and
one
of
the
things
we
talk
about
is
2020
vision
and
we're
talking
about
the
year
2020
and
we
need
to
prepare
for
the
year
2020
now
and
so
we're
telling
everybody
you
need
to
get
on
your
glasses
that
give
you
20/20
vision.
So
you
can
prepare
for
that
future.