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    Timeline of Information Age

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    The document outlines major milestones in the development of information technologies from 3000 BC to the modern era. Some of the earliest developments include Sumerian cuneiform writing on clay tablets around 3000 BC, followed by Egyptian hieroglyphics in 2900 BC. By 105 AD, the Chinese had invented woodblock printing and paper. In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg developed the movable type printing press. Major 19th century inventions were the telegraph, research on persistence of vision leading to motion pictures, and early computer designs. The 20th century saw developments in radio, television, computing, and information theory, culminating in the internet.

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    The document outlines major milestones in the development of information technologies from 3000 BC to the modern era. Some of the earliest developments include Sumerian cuneiform writing on clay tablets around 3000 BC, followed by Egyptian hieroglyphics in 2900 BC. By 105 AD, the Chinese had invented woodblock printing and paper. In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg developed the movable type printing press. Major 19th century inventions were the telegraph, research on persistence of vision leading to motion pictures, and early computer designs. The 20th century saw developments in radio, television, computing, and information theory, culminating in the internet.

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    The document outlines major milestones in the development of information technologies from 3000 BC to the modern era. Some of the earliest developments include Sumerian cuneiform writing on clay tablets around 3000 BC, followed by Egyptian hieroglyphics in 2900 BC. By 105 AD, the Chinese had invented woodblock printing and paper. In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg developed the movable type printing press. Major 19th century inventions were the telegraph, research on persistence of vision leading to motion pictures, and early computer designs. The 20th century saw developments in radio, television, computing, and information theory, culminating in the internet.

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    Timeline of Information Age

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    The document outlines major milestones in the development of information technologies from 3000 BC to the modern era. Some of the earliest developments include Sumerian cuneiform writing on clay tablets around 3000 BC, followed by Egyptian hieroglyphics in 2900 BC. By 105 AD, the Chinese had invented woodblock printing and paper. In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg developed the movable type printing press. Major 19th century inventions were the telegraph, research on persistence of vision leading to motion pictures, and early computer designs. The 20th century saw developments in radio, television, computing, and information theory, culminating in the internet.

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    TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

    3000 BC
    o Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent words
    o SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION
     first civilization in Mesopotamia
    o CUNEIFORM
     cuneiform means “wedge-shaped”
     wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets
     made my means of blunt reed for a stylus
     more linear
    2900 BC
    o beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphic script
    o HIEROGLYPHIC
     hiero – “holy”, glypho – “writing”
     combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements
     total of some 1,000 distinct characters
     characters are more detailed
    1300 BC
    o Tortoise shell and oracle bone writings were used
    o earliest written records of Chinese civilization
    o ORACLE BONES
     shoulder blades of oxen or plastrons of turtles
    o CARAPCE
     outer shell of turtles
    o used during the Shang dynasty for divination
    500 BC
    o Papyrus roll was used
    o PAPYRUS
     made from a plant
     chief writing material in ancient Egypt
     flexible smooth surface – which accepts and retains ink without blur or smudge
    220 BC
    o Chinese small seal writing was developed
    o SMALL SEAL SCRIPT
     small and vertically rectangular form of shouten(小篆, small seal script)
     leading further to creating the first Chinese dictionary, the Erya
    o remained popular through the Han dynasty
    o preserved on numerous stone stelae or inscribed stone slabs, used for official documents and ceremonial
    purposes
    o archaic form of Chinese calligraphy
    100 AD
    o BOOK (parchment codex)
    o replacement for papyrus roll
    o PARCHMENT
     made from the skin of an animal
    o OLDEST BOOKS
     made from compiled parchment
    105 AD
    o Woodblock printing and paper was invented by the Chinese
    o Image is carved in reverse on a piece of wood
    o the block is then inked and printed on a substance like paper or fabric
    o INK
     made from plant pigments, animal liquids or animal bile
    1455
    o Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable printing press
    o MOVABLE PRINTING PRESS
     more efficient than the wood block printing style
     uses movable components to reproduce information on a medium (paper)
    1755
    o Samuel Johnson published his book, A Dictionary of the English Language
    o standardized English spelling
    o one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English language
    o consists of more than 40,000 words
    o written for 8 years
    o used in clarification of English words
    1802
    o LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
     was established in US
     main research arm of the US
     largest library in the world
     200 million resources per year
     mainly for lawmaking
    o CARBON ARC LAMP
     was invented
     contains 2 carbon rods and when are touched together, produces an electric arc
     the rods are drawn apart, maintaining the arc, and electric current heats
     tips of the carbon rods are heated and carbon vaporizes (highly luminous) thus, produces the
    bright light
     used in the libraries
     used for projection and assimilation of information in libraries
    1824
    o Research on Persistence of Vision (POV) was published.
    o POV
     concept of how our brain sees individual images as a sequence of motion
     when still images are fast tracked, it appears like it is moving
     leads to motion picture
    1830s
    o First design of digital computer was made
    o called computer because it is mainly for computing basic arithmetic operations
    o CHARLES BABBAGE
     inventor
     called his invention as Analytical Engine
    o AUGUSTA LADY BYRON
     commissioned to translate notes into English and then augmented it
     made the first ever computer program
     assisted by Babbage
    1837
    o Telegraph was invented.
    o TELEGRAPH
     invented by Samuel Morse
     revolutionized long distance communication
     transmits electric signals over the wire laid between stations
    o MORSE CODE
     set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet
     simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines
     used in WW I
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    1923
    o VLADIMIR ZWORYKIN
     “father of television”
     two key components: iconoscope and kinescope
    o ICONOSCOPE
     early electronic camera tube
     used to scan image for the transmission of television
     contained a photosensitive plate or “mosaic” which divided the image to be televised into tiny
    sections called pixels
    1926
    o First practical sound movie
    o DON JUAN
     Warner Brothers
     first Vitaphone sound film
     developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1926
     TALKIE
     First publicly-shown “talking pictures”
     synchronized sound effects and orchestral music
     no dialogue
    1939
    o Began regular US television broadcasting on April 30
    o BROADCAST
     President Franklin D. Roosevelt opening the New York World’s Fair
     seen by an estimated 1,000 viewers
     roughly 200 televisions
    o programs were transmitted from the NBC mobile camera trucks to the main transmitter which was
    connected to an aerial atop the Empire State Building
    1940s
    o Beginning of Information Science as discipline
    o INFORMATION SCIENCE
     computer sciences, cognitive science, psychology, mathematics, logic, information theory,
    electronics, communications, linguistics, economics, classification science, systems science,
    library science and management science
    o AS A DISCIPLINE
     discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring information
    1945
    o Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention of hypertext
    o MEMEX
     name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext that Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly
    article “As We May Think”
     a device in which individuals would compress and store all their books, records, and
    communications
     influenced the development of early hypertext systems (eventually leading to the creation of the
    World Wide Web) and personal knowledge-based software
    1946
    o ENIAC computer was developed
    o ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTER
     first electric general-purpose computer
     built during WW II by the US
    1948
    o FIELD-OF-INFORMATION THEORY
     born out of Claude Shannon’s landmark paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication
     invention of the compact disc, the feasibility of mobile phones, the development of the Internet,
    the study of linguistics and of human perception, the understanding of black holes, and numerous
    other fields
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