Digital Revolution History of Technology

History of Technology When discussing technology and its history, Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press (1450) could be considered…

Examples of early technology Ben Franklin’s lightning rod in 1792 or Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1794 could also be considered.

Examples of Technology records tape recorders slide projectors

Examples of technology in education overhead projectors VCRs

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Brief History of Computers

1960s-1970s source credits IBM & its first operating system in 1960 as beginning of computer age optical fiber - created in 1970 by Corning Glass; invention that GTE and ATT would capitalize on much later to transmit voices and pictures (http://www.pbs.org).

1970s Bill Gates & Paul Allen presented Apple I to world in 1976 and Apple II in 1977 (complete with keyboard, game paddles, & cassette tape with the game “Breakout” loaded on it)

computer hooked up to color television for colored graphics; Tandy released first desktop computer in 1977 (http://www.pbs.org)

1980s IBM’s version of PC introduced in 1981; included Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system 1st portable computer cost $1,795; introduced in 1981 by Adam Osborne

1980s display was 5 in. & held 64 kb of memory (two 5 ¼ in. floppy disk drives included)

mid-1980s - Apple unveiled Macintosh and IBM introduced the PC Jr

1990s birth of the worldwide web (WWW or W3) historic logo designed by Robert Cailiau “www” invented by Tim Berners-Lee

World Wide Web system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet use web browser to view web pages that may contain text, images, videos and other multimedia navigate between them using hyperlinks

WWW, cont. "The World-Wide Web was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, and human culture, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project.“ Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Nick Montfort, ed (2003). The New Media Reader. Section 54. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-23227-8.

URL URL, HTTP, and Netscape became part of the everyday language Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator (URL) is a character string that specifies where a known resource is available on the Internet and the mechanism for retrieving it

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems; foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web

Netscape Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser independent company, headquarters in Mountain View, California; name ‘Netscape’ was a trademark of Cisco Systems, that was granted to the company

1990s Search engine giant, Yahoo, founded 1994

1990s & 2000s Windows’98 & Intel Pentium III processor released in 1998 and 1999, respectively. Apple’s iPod, MySpace.com, and about 1 billion people worldwide connected to the internet http://www.intel.com

Examples of cell phones through the years

Internet global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide worldwide interconnection of computers and computer networks that facilitate the sharing or exchange of information among users

Internet, con’t. carries a vast range of info resources/services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail

Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP) Goal-“to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library."