INFORMATION

AGE
Group 3
 CONTENTS

Development of Gathering
01 and spreading information
since prehistoric times
02 Development of computer
and its future advancements

Development of the internet Advantages and

03 and its future advancements 04 disadvantages of using
internet

05 Explain Information Age

 01
Development of Gathering and
Spreading of Information Since
Prehistoric Time
 HOW EARLY HUMANS COMMUNICATED

Long before the earliest writings of the Sumerians and the Egyptians
were developed, people communicated with each other by a number of
different methods. Early humans could express thoughts and feelings by
means of speech or by signs or gestures. However this form of
communication had two limitations

● Time
● Space
FORERUNNER OF WRITING: PICTURE, OR IDEA, WRITING

The need for communicating in a form less

limited by time and space led to drawings
or markings on objects of any solid
material. These messages lasted as long as
the materials themselves.

Such pictures convey ideas, or meanings,

directly to the mind without the use of words,
sounds, or other language forms. This primitive
method of communication is known as
pictography (picture writing) or ideography
(idea writing)
SUMERIANS AND EGYPTIANS ORIGINATE WRITING

The ideographic method of

communication may have been
sufficient in the simpler societies of
hunters and nomads. It could not,
however, meet the needs of urban
societies with their highly
developed commerce, industry,
agriculture, and state
organization, all of which involved
the need to keep records.
Early writing was influenced by a
number of factors, particularly by
the materials available.
The people of ancient Egypt
developed beautiful signs, called
hieroglyphics, for writing
inscriptions on tombs and
monuments and for writing
religious texts and important
documents on papyrus.

Because the people of southern Mesopotamia

lacked both stone and material suitable for
making paper, they pressed signs into wet
clay tablets with the end of a reed or wooden
stylus.When preservation of the tablets was
desired, they were baked.
PHONETIC WRITING

Word writing represented a tremendous

advance over idea writing. It too,
however, was not practical. Thousands of
signs for thousands of words had to be
invented and learned by students.A way
to overcome these difficulties was found
in the use of the phonetic principle, or
rebus device.

Rebus Device
PICTOGRAPHIC ORIGIN OF WORD-SYLLABIC SYSTEMS

Like the primitive ideographic

writings, all the word-syllabic
writings were originally
pictographic; that is, they contained
signs in which one could easily
recognize pictures of humans and
objects such as animals, plants, and
mountains.
SYLLABIC WRITING

A syllabary is a phonetic
writing system consisting
of symbols representing
syllables. A syllable is
often made up of a
consonant plus a vowel or
a single vowel.
SYLLABIC WRITING OF THE
PHOENICIANS
They eliminated all the
word-signs and all the
syllabic signs with more
than one consonant.
They limited their
syllabaries to about 30
signs beginning with a
consonant and ending in
any vowel.
 02

Development of Computer and

its future advancements
were

First Generation Computers

-1940 to 1956
-So large, that they used to run on steam engines

-Magnetic Drums
-Vacuum Tubes

-Machine Language
 -Transistor
Second Generation Computers
-1956 to 1963

-Core Memory

-Consumed less electricity

-Smaller in size
-Performed better than the previous computer
Third Generation Computers
-1964 to 1971
-Speed and data storage
-Far smaller than the earlier computers

-Semiconductor chips or integrated circuits

-First used keyboards and mouse
 -Intel 4004 chip
Fourth Generation Computers
-1971 to 2010
-Commodore Pet

-Apple II

-Altair 8800
-Internet -IBM Personal Computers
-Less and less small
-Computer memory, data storage improved
-Graphical User Interface (GUI)
-Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Fifth Generation Computers

-Dynamic development
-Quantum technology, Artificial
intelligence, nanotechnology
-Peek to the future
Future of Computers

-Might develop the intelligence

of their own
-May not be seen at all—skin,
pockets.
-Science, Technology, and
biotechnology
 03
Development of the internet and
its future advancements
⚪ August 1962
⬚ J.C.R. Licklider of MIT

- discussed his “Galactic Network”

concept
⚪ 1961 & 1964
⬚ Leonard Kleinrock of MIT

- published the first paper

and book on packet
switching theory
 ⚪ 1967
⬚ Lawrence G. Roberts
- goes on to publish a plan for the
ARPANET.

⚪ 1969
- world’s first message
sent “Lo”
⚪ 1973
⬚ Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf
- develop a protocol for linking
multiple networks together.
- later becomes (TCP/IP)
⚪ 1970s
⬚ Robert Metcalfe
- develop a system using cables
that allows for transfer of more
data over a network (Ethernet)
⚪ 1970s
⬚ Ted Nelson

- proposes using hypertext to

organize network information,
⚪ 1982
⬚ Dave Farber

- had a project to build

an inexpensive
network using dial-up
phone line.
⚪ 1983
- Domain Name system was created

⚪ 1985
- the first domain was registered: symbolics.com
⚪ 1990
⬚ Tim Berners-Lee

- invented HTML (hypertext markup

language), HTTP (HyperText
Transfer Protocol), URLs (Universal
Resource Locators) and WWW
(World Wide Web)
⚪ 1995

- Microsoft launches Windows 95

- Amazon, Yahoo and eBay all launch
- Internet Explorer launches
- Java was created
⚪ 1998
- Google
was founded

⚪ 1999
- first internet virus
was discovered
⚪ 2005
- First cat video

⚪ 2000s
- Google
- Wi-Fi
- mobile internet devices
Future Advancements of the
internet

● More connected
● More technological growth
 04

Advantages and Disadvantages

Of using internet
 ADVANTAGES

Communication Access To Resources E-commerce,

& Instant Digital Banking
Information
& Payments
 ADVANTAGES

Collaboration &
Entertainment & Online Education
Donation and Lifestyle
Funding & Distant
Learning
 ADVANTAGES

Online
Video Selling &
Services,
Conferencing &
Booking & Making
Screen Sharing
Schedule and Money
Job Apply

Address Mapping
& Contact
Information
 DISADVANTAGES

Waste Of Time Money Frauds Cyber Crime

 DISADVANTAGES

Isolation & Fake News &

Security Threats
Health Problems Spread of Illegal
and Unethical
Material
 DISADVANTAGES

Addiction & Not safe for Virus & Hacking

Pornographic and
Causes Children Attacks
Violent Images
Distractions
 05

Explain Information Age

The Information Age began around the 1970s and is still
going on today. It is also known as the Computer Age,
Digital Age, or New Media Age. This era brought about
a time period in which people could access information
and knowledge easily.

It is a period in human history characterized by the shift

from traditional industry that the industrial revolution
brought through industrialization, to an economy based
on the information computerization.
Inventions and Innovations of the Information Age

There were many different inventions that came about because of

the Information Age, one of which was the computer. The Internet
allowed people to access information with the touch of a button.

Internet- has turned society into homebodies, individuals who do

everything from the comfort of their homes instead of venturing
outdoors to complete tasks. People can do everything online;
shopping, communicating, bill paying, working, education,
entertainment, even ordering food.
IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF THE
INFORMATION AGE
 Claude E. Shannon
Known as the "father of
Information Theory,"
Shannon showed how all
information media, from
telephone signals to radio
waves to television, could
be transmitted without
error using this single
framework.
Bill Gates is also a huge
force in the Information
Age. He founded
Microsoft, which creates
almost everything that has
to do with computers.
Microsoft develops
programs like Microsoft
Office, Windows, and
many other influential
products.
Tim Berners-Lee created the
World Wide Web. Jobs who
was created the first effective
personal computer called the
Apple 1. The Apple 1 was a
huge advancement in
computer sciences and it
carved the path for the
computers we have now.
Apple has created iPhone,
iPod, iPad, iMac, and Apple
TV.
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