HIST390

This week we watched 3 YouTube videos prior to class. Video of The Past which was about the information age. This video explained how people used to communicate through signals. There was always problem every time information was sent to one place to another. There was always noise between signals and everything time the signal was increased so was the noise. It wasn’t until Claude Shannon, the most important man we have never heard of changed the world forever by creating the pixels. It was easier to communicate. the second video, How Does the Internet Work, explained how the Internet works. I learned to think of networking as a game we agree to play by the same rules. Every date has its own IP address, it travels in tiny packets of data  from where it is and where is going to.
The third video, History of Internet mentioned that in back in 1957 computers only worked on one task at a time. This is called batch processing which it became very ineffective. Also, computers kept on getting bigger and bigger which were a problem for the developers  I learned about The ARPANET, RAND, NPL, and CYCLADES, the organizations that are the foundation for our modern internet.
These videos were an introduction to what we learned in class. We learned about the information wanting to be free and how it’s useful when its shared. This week contained different details about the beginning of the Information Era. First, it started with the transistors which allowed computers to be smaller, more efficient and more powerful. We also learned about Hypertext, a text in which some or all of the words or ideas are linked to other things; its not linear, it does not have a start point, or an end point. For example, Wikipedia is a Hypertext. In this era we also learned about higher revolution technology. The Revolutionary Idea- you are able to form your own path through the information.
In 1920, there was one radio station in America and the only people who heard it were experts trained by  the Navy Signal Corps in WWI. Ten years later, there were 100s of stations and millions of radios in nearly every home. Going back to the Internet, it could be compared to two of the biggest things back in the day, the radio and TV. The technology made a huge progress. We get to enjoy the results of the work put in the past. We can now use radios and the Internet without any restrictions. Technology (phones, laptops, iPads, etc)  is basically used for everything nowadays.