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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 2000)
The Heisman Watch The First in a Weekly Series of Heisman Trophy Candidates. MICHAEL VICK Virginia Tech Position: QB Class: Sophomore Height: 61" Weight: 214 Hometown: Newport News, VA Vick had a sensational freshman year last year, leading the Hokies to their first ever 11 -0 regular season, spoiled only by their loss to national champion Florida State in the Bowl Championship Series title game. Vick had the most award-laden fresh man campaign in college football history. He won the first-ever Archie Griffin Award for the most valuable player in college foot ball, an ESPY for being the top college football player, the Big East Offensive Player of the Year Award and the Big East Rookie of the Year Award. Vick also finished third in Heisman vot ing (matching the highest-ever showing by a freshman), second in the Associated Press Player of the Year Award voting, was named a second team Associated Press All-American, made first-team Freshman ; All-America teams selected by The Sporting News and Football News, and led all Division l-A quarterbacks in passing effi ciency (180.37), setting a freshman in the process. And that was just year. Other highlights include compiling 322 yards of total offense (by himself) against Florida State in the Nokia Sugar Bowl, and setting school single-season records for: highest yards passing per completion (20.4), per attempt (12.1), and highest completion percentage (59.2). Named to first team pre-season All America teams by: Athlon, Playboy, Blue Ribbon, Lindy’s, The Sporting News, Rivals.com, Collegefootballnews.com 1999 stats: completed 90 of 152 passes for 1,840 yards and 12 TDs; rushed for 585 yards on 108 carries (5.4 yards per carry), and 8 TDs. • —ABaldwin Go to steamtunnels.net to vote for your Heisman choice. -v, , ---v internet timeline a 'M AKPA (Atlv.uu ed Romm11 It Piojet ts Agency) goes online, providing a network in case a military attack destroys sonvention.il i oinmunis .itions. I lei tionu m.nl intiodm ed. Queen 1 liz.ibeth sends her first email in 197H Control PioUkol, Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) designed. 1989 lim Bemeis Lee of CLRN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) develops a technique for distributing infoi mation on the Intel net based on hypertext (eventually called the World Wide Web). M.iit Aiulieeson develops Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which becomes the dominant navigating system for the World Wide Web. Mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing "spamming" to the Internet vocabulary. 2000 Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet, with roughly 30 million'in North America. 9 million in Europe, and 6 million in Asia/Pacific. On My 1997. Intel net tiaffic records aie broken as the NASA web site broadcasts images *taken by Pathfindei on Mais. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day. $ If The luimbei of Internet users worldwide reaches 150 million. Over 50% are from the United States. 2000 Deviant computer programmers circulate viruses— Love Bug and Stages are two examples — that duplicate themselves in users' email address books. tt . tt J, VV< .- At' •'■■ ■ R M;«s liin.fei AP : tt ,n
