The Information Age “Lets Get It Started”
What is the Information Age? Information Age: People, Information & Societies that chronicle the birth and growth of electronic information -- from ancient times to Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph in the 1830s, through the development of the telephone, radio, television, and computer. http://www.tcf.ua.edu/courses/Jbutler/T389/ITHistoryOutline2.htm
Four Periods of The Information Age Pre-Mechanical - 3000 B.C.-1450 A.D. Mechanical - 1450-1840 Electro-Mechanical - 1840-1940 Electronic/Information -1940-Present
The Pre-Mechanical Age Writing and Alphabets: Cuneiform, Symbols Paper and Pen: Papermaking Books and Libraries: Religious Scrolls, Binding Numbering Systems: Numbers 1-9, Zero The First Calculators The Abacus
The Mechanical Age Movable Type Printing General Computers (Numbers) Slide Rule Analog Computer Key Punch Computer Binary Logic Real Time Operated Computers
The Electro-Mechanical Age Telecommunications Voltaic Battery Telegraph Morse Code Telephones and Radios Computing Census Machine Mark 1 Paper Stored Programming
Information Age Electronic Vacuum Tubes Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer Manchester Mark 1 First Computer for Commercial Use
Computer Generations First Generation (1951-1958) Main Logic Elements Externally Stored Information Machine and Assembly Language Compilers Second Generation (1959-1963) Transistors Semi-Conductors High-Level Programming Fortran/Cobol Third Generation (1964-1978) Integrated Circuits Magnetic Tape and Disk Operating Systems BASIC Fourth Generation (1979-) Large Scale Circuits Central Processing Units Apple II/Apple Mac IBM/MS-DOS/GUI MS Windows
Ancient Pioneers in Information Technology Sumerians Phoenicians Romans Egyptians Greeks Hindus
Pioneers in Information Technology John Mauchly J. Prosper Eckert John Von Neumann Blaise Pascal William Oughtred Gottfried von Leibniz Charles Babbage Augusta Ada Byron Alexander Graham Bell Herman Hollerith Howard Aiken Max Newman Maurice Wilkes Steven Wozniak Steven Jobs Bill Gates