MODULE 9: INFORMATION AGE
- co-founder of Apple Inc.
JOHANNES GUTENBERG
- German goldsmith
- Invented the printing press around 1440
- Mould printing press led to creation of metal
movable type
THE GUTENBERG PRESS
- was a result of finding a way to improve the
manual, tedious, and slow printing methods
PRINTING PRESS
- is a device that applies pressure to an inked
surface lying on a print medium to transfer
ink
“COMPUTERS”
- people who compiled actuarial tables and
did engineering calculations
COUNTRIES THAT OPPOSED THE AXIS
POWERS
- Germany
- Japan
- Italy
- Hungary
- Romania
- Bulgaria
HARVARD MARK 1 (UNITED STATES)
- a general purpose electromechanical
computer that was 50 feet long and capable
of doing calculations in seconds that usually
took people hours.
GERMAN NAVY’S ENIGMA CODE
- was an enciphering machine that the
German armed forces used to securely
send messages
ALAN TURING
- an English mathematician, was hired in
1936 by the British top-secret Government
Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park
BOMBE
- an electromechanical machine that enabled
the British to decipher encrypted messages
of the German Enigma machine.
TURING MACHINE
- can solve any problem from simple
instructions encoded on a paper tape.
- became the foundation of computer science
ELECTRONIC BRAINS
- the generation who witnessed the dawn of
the computer age
HOMEBREW COMPUTER CLUB
- an early computer hobbyist group
- gathered regularly to trade parts of
computer hardware and talked about how to
make computers more accessible to
everyone
STEVE WOZNIAK
- developed the computer that made him
famous
- designed the operating system, hardware
and circuit board of the computer all by
himself
STEVE JOBS
- Wozniak’s friend, suggested to sell the
Apple I as a fully assembled printed circuit
board
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
- instant-messaging applications (e.g.,
AOL, Yahoo messenger, MSN
messenger, Windows messenger);
- bulletin board forum systems,
- game-based social networking sites
(e.g., Facebook, Friendster, Myspace)
and
- business-oriented social networking
websites (e.g., Xing);
- messaging, video and voice calling
services (e.g., Viber, Skype);
- blogging platform, image and video and
voice calling services (e.g., Flicker);
- discovery and dating-oriented websites
(e.g., Tagged, Tinder);
- video sharing services (e.g., YouTube);
- real-time social media feed aggregator
(e.g., FriendFeed);
- live-streaming (e.g., Justin.tv, Twitch.tv);
- photo-video sharing websites (e.g.,
Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Keek,
Vine); and
- question-and-answer platforms (e.g.,
Quora).