CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Flat Rate, Media Ethics, Wavelength
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Telephone and early radio sound transmission technologies. Telephone"s early years: 1876 invented, 1878 people realised that this will be a popular idea. Arranged the first telephone exchange which allows you to speak with other people you may not know, the telephone network. Building a bell monopoly 1880- 1893: monopoly builder. Bell wanted to let people rent equipment, not pay for it. Party lines involved neighbors using the same telephone line, someone else could hear your conversation: flat rate vs message rate. The congestion of a residential network would not be affordable by middle class. Titanic: 4/15/12: boats were able to communicate with other boats and shore without cables. Human experience and the telegraph/phone: right now; the present. In our reality, we are able to be informed fairly quickly of news and events around the world. Crystal sets: earliest radios, buy a kit with instructions to assemble product, people compare these days to the first days of internet.
