1. The Information Age
“Lets Get It Started”

2. 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.

3. Four Periods of The Information Age
Pre-Mechanical B.C A.D.
Mechanical
Electro-Mechanical
Electronic/Information Present

4. 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

5. The Mechanical Age Movable Type Printing General Computers (Numbers)
Slide Rule
Analog Computer
Key Punch Computer
Binary Logic
Real Time Operated Computers

6. The Electro-Mechanical Age
Telecommunications
Voltaic Battery
Telegraph
Morse Code
Telephones and Radios
Computing
Census Machine
Mark 1
Paper Stored
Programming

7. Information Age Electronic Vacuum Tubes
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Manchester Mark 1
First Computer for Commercial Use

8. Computer Generations First Generation (1951-1958)
Main Logic Elements
Externally Stored Information
Machine and Assembly Language
Compilers
Second Generation ( )
Transistors
Semi-Conductors
High-Level Programming
Fortran/Cobol
Third Generation ( )
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

9. Ancient Pioneers in Information Technology
Sumerians
Phoenicians
Romans
Egyptians
Greeks
Hindus

10. 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