Head Tale

It's a bit ironic that the town I visited today for Internet training happens to have a small place in Internet history itself. 

But other than a brief discussion with the branch librarian about the events of the last couple years since a young man from Montreal was able to execute a series of online trades from his starting point of a single red paper clip to his goal of a house, I made no mention of the event during my public sessions. 

I did, however, have to change my usual methodology of doing a search for the local community's name when demonstrating Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. as I knew the Red Paper Clip story would come up in all of my searches and I'm sure, whether they thought this was a good or bad thing, many locals are tired of being known for this one thing.

Luckily, a family of immigrants from China who are working at a local business (and were the impetus for a successful ESL group starting at the library) attended my session so I was able to use Shanghai as an example for many of the searches I did instead. 

So in honour of that family, here's a video clip of their city…