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

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
slide projectors
tape recorders
Examples of technology in education
overhead projectors
VCRs
8 tracks & player
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.
(http://www.computerhistory.org).
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 0262-23227-8.
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."