Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Old Media, Virtual Community, Flickr

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G
• Professor: Nick Dyer- Witheford

Document Summary

In order to understand where we are now, it is necessary to understand the role we have travelled in digital networks: over its short history, the internet has taken many politically economic forms. The military net: the internet a network of networks originates in 1970s. A branch of the us department of defense [pentagon: as part of us nuclear war planning and research. Created to contact us bases in case of a nuclear was with soviet union. Originally a military project: a publicly funded project, pentagon"s advanced research project agency. The electronic frontier: students and instructors at top us research institutes the first "hackers" - link up universities and other virtual communities, text based; non-commercial, no-ads. An application that could be used on the internet that allows you to see graphic displays. Tim burners-lee invented the protocol for the world wide web.