SECTION 1 — THE INFORMATION AGE

Information

knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a specific fact or circumstance

Information Age

period when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the management of information by computer and computer networks

Digital Age and the New Media Age

it started in the last quarter of the 20th century

James R. Messenger’s

“The Theory of Information Age” (1982) describes a new age based upon interconnection of computers via telecommunications, with information systems operating on both real-time and as-needed bases

105 AD

woodblock printing and paper were invented by the Chinese;

1455

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using movable metal type

1755

Samuel Johnson’s dictionary standardized English spelling

1802

the Library of Congress was established

1824

research on persistence of vision was published

1830s

first visible design for a digital computer and Augusta Lady Byron writes the world’s first computer program

1837

invention of the telegraph in Great Britain and the US

1861

motion pictures were projected onto a screen

1876

Dewey Decimal System introduced

1877

Eadward Muybridge demonstrated high-speed photography

1899

first magnetic recordings were released

1902

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Computers

People who compiled actuarial tables and did engineering calculations served.

Harvard Mark 1

United States addressed the by creating this machine, a general purpose electromechanical computer that was 50 ft long and capable of doing calculations in seconds

Enigma

was an enciphering machine that the German armed forces used to securely send messages

Alan Turing

English mathematican, was hired to break the Enigma code.

1970s

the generation witnessed the dawn of the computer age was described as the generation with “electronic brains”.

1973

social media platform were introduced from multi-uyser chat room