Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Internet Service Provider, Creative Commons, Hacker Culture
19 Nov 2012
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Built on old technologies: write letter write email, talk on the phone skype, read newspaper read online. Convergence = all these different technologies changing into newer form (internet- based) Voice over, phone processes are put onto the internet recently and video screening. Paving the way for the internet: telegraph and railroad, telephone communications, radio, electricity, television. A network of networks : large, different networks in different areas of the world. Socio-technological infrastructure (combination of people, society, and technology: networks, computers, people, content, applications, ect. Development of internet took place post ww2 (during cold war: sputnick in soviet advised us to invest in military research and technology. 1969 aprpanet us department of defense: part of military program so government funded it. 1990 tim berners-lee and www application: can now create browsers that have a common content in sharing language, allowed content to be shared. 1995 until today private operation of the internet.
