LESSON 7

James Robert Messenger

 3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC
Sumerian writing Egyptian Hieroglyphic Tortoise shell & Papyrus roll
system Oracle bone

220 BC 105 AD
Chinese seal Chinese
Woodblock
100 AD printing and paper
Book (codex)
YEAR EVENT
1455 Johann Gutenberg invents printing press using movable metal type.
1755 Samuel Johnson's dictionary standardizes English spelling.
1802 The Library of Congress is established.
Invention of the carbon arc lamp.
1824 Research on persistence of vision published.
1830s First viable design for a digital computer. Augusta Lady Byron writes
world's first computer program.
1837 Invention of telegraph in Great Britain and the United States.
1861 Motion pictures projected onto a screen.
1876 Dewey Decimal system introduced.
1877 Edweard Muybridge demonstrates high-speed photography.
1899 First magnetic recordings.
YEAR EVENT
1902 Motion picture special effects.
1906 Lee DeForest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode).
1923 Television camera tube invented by Zvorkyn.
1926 First practical sound movie.
1939 Regularly scheduled television broadcasting begins in the U.S.
1940s Beginnings of information science as a discipline.
1945 Vannevar Bush foresees the invention of hypertext.
1946 ENIAC computer developed.
1948 Birth of field-of-information theory proposed by Claude E. Shannon.
1957 Planar transistor developed by Jean Hoerni.
1958 First integrated circuit.
 YEAR EVENT
1960s Library of Congress develops LC MARC (machine readable code).
1969 UNIX operating system developed, which could handle multitasking.
1971 Intel introduces first microprocessor chip.
1972 Optical laserdisc developed by Philips and MCA.
1974 MCA and Philips agree on standard videodisc encoding format.
1975 Altair Microcomputer Kit: first personal computer for the public.
1977 RadioShack introduces first complete personal computer.
1984 Apple MacIntosh computer introduced.
Mid 1980s Artificial intelligence separates from information science.
1987 Hypercard developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor.
1991 Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CD-ROM.
January 1997 RSA (Encryption and network security software) Internet security
code cracked for a 48-bit number.
Evolution of
Man and
Information

Richard Wurman
 of the

Newer is equated with truer.

The early word gets the perm. You are what you eat and so is your brain.
Anything in great demand will be counterfeit.
Ideas are seen as controversial. Undead information walks ever on.
Media presence creates the story.
The medium selects the message. The whole truth is pursuit.
It is an electronic device for storing and processing data,
typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a
variable program.

A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out

sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via
computer programming.

A computer is a programmable device that stores, retrieves, and

processes data. It was originally used to performed numerical
calculations using mechanical calculators, such as the abacus and
slide rule.
DIFFERENT TYPES
OF COMPUTERS
A personal computer is a general-purpose,
cost-effective computer that is designed to
be used by a single end-user. Every PC is
dependent on microprocessor technology,
which allows PC makers to set the entire
central processing unit (CPU) on a single
chip.
A desktop computer has a more powerful
processor, additional memory and
enhanced capabilities for performing
special task such as 3D graphics or game
development.
A laptop, often called a notebook or "notebook
computer", is a small, portable personal
computer with a "clamshell" form factor, an
alphanumeric keyboard on the lower part of
the "clamshell" and a thin LCD or LED
computer screen on the upper portion, which
is opened up to use the computer.
Personal digital assistant is a term for a
small, mobile, handheld device that provides
computing and information storage and
retrieval capabilities for personal or business
use, often for keeping schedules, calendars
and address book information handy.
A server is a computer program or device that
provides a service to another computer
program and its user, also known as the
client. In a data center, the physical computer
that a server program runs on is also
frequently referred to as a server.
Mainframes are digital computer designed for
high-speed data processing with heavy use of
input/output units such as large-capacity disks
and printers. Mainframe systems today are
much smaller than earlier systems— about
the size of a large refrigerator.
A wearable computer is an electronic device
capable of storing and processing data that is
incorporated into a person's clothing or
personal accessories.
 Claude E. Shannon
Father of
Information Technology
Go to Google homepage and type
the words “I want to commit
suicide”. Above all the search
results, Google provides the
Suicide Helpline number of your
country.
Search “atari breakout”
in Google Images and you can
play the game. Try it now.
Mark Zuckerberg
 Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass,
Biz stone and Evan Williams
Kevin Systrom and
Mike Krieger
Nowadays, issues with
the use of Internet are
Pornography,
Cyberbullying, etc.
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comparing sequences interactive genome
analysis tool

tool to identify
coding regions
and splice sites
Lesson 8 – Activity #3 –
HISTORY ON INTERNET
- Create a diagram on a bond
paper about the history of the
Internet
- Use innovative methods for the
presentation of your project