W2: Introduction to the Digital Age Flashcards
It is a period in human history that started when computers were introduced in the 1970s
Digital Age
Rapid shift from mechanical industrialization to technological innovation
Digital Age
The Digital Age is also termed as ______ ,______, or_______
the Information Age, Computer Age, or New Media Age
What is ICT
Information and Communication Technology
pertains to the unification and integration of telecommunication lines (wireless or not), computers, software and systems that enable access, storage, transmittal, and manipulation of information
ICT
It concentrates on advancing the way we communicate in the information or digital age
ICT
Imaginative Art or some form of communication were discovered by archeologist in …
Cave painting and Carve stones
cave paintings and carved stones were done by _________ that dates backs to around what year
Neanderthals or early homo sapiens; 130,000 to 100,000 BC
use of homing pigeons which date back to no less than….
2,900 BC
____ pigeons were additionally utilized for correspondence in China, India, persia, and numerous parts of Asia
Homing
The Egyptian army utilized ____ pigeons for military correspondence
bearer
Around _____ BC, King ________ sent a homing pigeon out with every one of his detachments.
2350 BC. King Sargon of Akkadia
By_____, _______ pigeons were being utilized to convey the news of Olympic triumphs to Athens
776, transporter
the story of ____ is that which inspired the sporting spectacle of Marathon running
Pheidippides
Pheidippides an Athenian Herald or courier was said to have run from _____ to ____
Marathon to Athens
Why did Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens
to report that the Greeks won against the Persians in the Battle of Marathon
The first daily newspaper ever distributed was
Einkommende Zeitungen
What year was the first daily newspaper and what place
July 1, 1650 in Leipzig, Germany
What does Einkommende Zeitungen mean
approaching daily papers
The Telegraph was created in the (year) by (name)
1840s, Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse year of birth and death
1791-1872
It worked by transmitting electrical flags over a wire laid between stations
Telegraph
What code did Samuel Morse built
Morse code
Alexander Grahan Bell year of birth and death
1847-1922
worked at a school for the hard of hearing while at the same time endeavoring to imagine a machine that would transmit sound by power
Alexander Graham Bell
What date was Bell awarded the principal official patent for his phone
March 7, 1876
who pioneered the first long-distance radio transmission and what year
Guglielmo Marconi in 1901
the first long-distance- radio transmission and transmitted to the first transatlantic radio signal from ____ to _____
Cornwall to Newfoundland
In (date), (company) held the first public demonstration of long-distance TV image transmission
April 7, 1927, AT&T (The Bell Company)
Reporters watched as a TV image of Secretary of _____ (name) was sent from _____ to _____ by phone lines
Commerce, Herbert Hoover, Washington D.C., New York
Inter-networking began when packet switching networks which included the ______ of the ________ joined multiple separate networks into a networks or networks
APARNET project, US Protection Office
World Wide Web was developed from ____ to ____ at the _______ and was made freely available to the world in ____
1989-1994, European Council for Nuclear Research, 1994
Instant messaging began in the ______
70s and 80s
AOL or American Online gained popularity in
May 1997
In ____ the word blog sprung up and after 5 years the term was announced expression of the year by_____
1999, Merriam-Webster
the world’s most mainstream interpersonal interaction site
Facebook was launched when and by who
February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg
Twitter was created by who and when
Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Business Stone, Evan William in 2006
