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- Early Computers
- John Vincent Atanasoff, first electronic computer
- Alan Turing, Colossus
- ENIAC
- Early Networks
- SAGE Air Defense
- Livermore National Laboratory
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- US Defense Department
- started in 1958 in response to Sputnik launching
- cooperated with research universities
- headed by J.C.R. Licklider
- ARPANET
- distributed network
- computer network
- decentralized
- designed to survive nuclear attack
- first connection
- November 1969
- between UCLA and Stanford
- publicly demonstrated
- DARPA, 1972
- “internetting”
- Technical Standards
- “Esperanto for machines”
- packet switching
- Paul Baran
- fundamental mode of communication for the Internet
- TCP/IP
- Internet names and numbers
- electronic mail
- Alto
- developed by Xerox, early 1970s
- prototype for a personal computer
- graphical user interface
- Ethernet
- high speed LAN
- Bob Metcalfe
- Altair
- first personal microcomputer, 1975
- Intel 8080 processor
- 256 bytes of RAM
- front panel with lights
- Microsoft BASIC
- $400 kit. assembled for $500.
- mail order
- Apple
- Steve Jobs and Wozniak
- Apple I
- Apple II
- Macintosh
- 1984
- graphic user interface
- Hypercard
- linking on keywords or icons
- Internetting
- “network of networks"
- ARPANET
- BITNET
- USENET
- NSFNet
- Commercial Internet
- end of Cold War, 1991
- Gopher, University of Minnesota
- hypertext markup language, CERN
- first web browser, Tim Berners-Lee
- Dot-Com Boom
- Netscape
- America Online
- Amazon
- Yahoo!
- eBay
- Google
- Dot-Com Bust
- AOL-Time Warner merger, 2000
- Internet Explorer displaced Netscape as top browser
- dominance of Windows
- it was free
- stock market bubble, 2001
- recession
- Old Media in the Internet Age
- advertising: Google
- newspaper classified advertising: Craig’s List
- recording industry: music file sharing and iTunes
- television: Netflix
- Social Media
- Web 2.0
- Facebook
- Twitter
- YouTube
- Instagram
- Snapchat
- Pinterest
- Wikipedia
- New Media
- inexpensive production costs
- interactive
- social
- Walled Garden
- sandboxed access apps
- open Internet is off limits
- users caught in a “filter bubble”
- Technology Trends
- Moore’s Law
- computers and processors
- smaller
- faster
- Metcalfe’s Law
- New Internet Technologies
- Smartphones
- Tablets
- Internet of Things
- IPv6
- Cloud Computing
- User Tracking
- World Wide Web
- uniform resource locator
- protocols
- domains
- top-level domains
- Electronic Publishing
- old media on the web
- shovelware
- comments sections
- video content
- visualizations
- Entertainment
- peer-to-peer file sharing
- ad-supported services
- pay services
- online games
- social networking games
- gambling
- Structured Content
- portals
- search engines
- social media
- blogs
- ecommerce
- Regulations
- copyright
- patents
- net neutrality
- “free” as in speech
- “free” as in beer
- Government Regulations
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- anti-circumvention
- safe harbor for service providers
- USA PATRIOT Act
- National Security Agency
- Edward Snowden
- PRISM
- surveillance
- encryption
- backdoors
- Digital Divide
- haves and have-nots
- socio-economic status
- geography
- urban vs. rural
- digital underdevelopment
- Security Threats
- spamming
- phishing
- theft
- surveillance
- Security Measures
- passwords
- strong
- unique
- password manager
- encryption
- firewalls
- proxies