The Internet Time Line and History of Computing!

Lets start with The History of Computing!

- Abacus: c. 3000 BC
- Transistors: 1947
- Apple II: 1977
- IBM PC: 1981
- World Wide Web: 1991
(H-Ref 1)

Alan Turing, born in England in 1912, did most of the serious work for the development of the computer. After the War, Turing investigated "programming, neural nets, and the prospects for artificial intelligence." (H-Ref 2)

In the 1950's, IBM produced the first commercially available computers. Huge machines.. unattractive but effective.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded a computer company known as Apple. Jobs and Wozniak made a primitive machine with a single circuit board, no case and no keyboard and called it the Apple I. It cost around $USA666.60. They came back with the Apple II after the collapse of the Apple I, which basically made them a fortune by 1978. (H-Ref 2)

The Time Line of the Internet

~1969: known as the ARPANET was brought online. Basically, it allowed computers to
share information with each other across military and scientific fields.
~1972: Ray Tomlinson adapted e-mail for ARPANET
~1981: BITNET connected IBM mainframes around the educational community and the world to provide mail services
~1986: the National Science Foundation funded NSFNet as a cross country 56 Kbps backbone for the Internet
~1991: the first really friendly interface to the Internet was developed at the University of Minnesota.
~1998: Bill Gates releases Windows '98 with the internet browser well integrated into the system. (H-Ref 3)
~Today: We can see, Wireless internet on wireless computers and WLAN on mobile phones..it just keeps going..I mean, accessing internet on your fridge, talk about 'Convergence'..Technology has advanced so much, thus it will NEVER die.. I mean, too much people have put too much work into it.. =P

Language of the Screen

ECU:Tried to Find Out Through – Google, Acronym Finder and Ask.com: - typed ECU (came across; East Catholic University, Edith Cowan University and Engine Control Uni and blah blah…lots of wrong answers.
FINALLY!! It means Extreme Close-Up, a shot with a very narrow field of view. In terms of human figure, a small part of the face, such as the lips, or an eye may fill the frame.(H-Ref 4)

WS: Basically, I tried to find what ECU means first, but then it all came together if you typed ECU, WS and MS in the Google search bar and eventually you’ll be able to find it. That’s what our tutor told us. I couldn’t find it for myself. Lame =_=”
It means Wide Shot, a wide shot is one that is wide. More specifically, it would be the shot that shows a whole building or store is as opposed to the medium shot which may be the doors of that building. (H-Ref 5)

MS: it means Mid Shot, between the extremes of the long shot and the close-up, the medium shot usually shows a person or persons from the knees up, or views a scene at a “normal” viewing distance. (H-Ref 6)
Bibliography
H-Ref 1 - Triumph of the Nerds
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/ Accessed: 12/08/09
H-Ref 2- NCT 09 GC Blog
http://nct09-gc.blogspot.com/ Accessed: 12/08/09
H-Ref 3 - A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html Accessed: 12/08/09
H-Ref 4: - ECU (Extreme Close-Up)
www.csustom.edu/ENGLISH/Perrello/FilmTerms/htm Accessed: 12/08/09
H-Ref 5: - WS (Wide Shot)
www.cramitproductions.com/definitions.html Accessed: 12/08/09
H-Ref 6: - MS (Medium Shot)
www.plu.edu/~jensenmk/271filmterms.html Accessed: 12/08/09
Found the images from above here.

That's it for now..this blogging thing is been kinda a drag..but yeah..
lets just say this took a while.. =_='

Thanks for reading. ^^