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The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution [1]) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century to the early 21st century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the ...
Digital history is commonly digital public history, concerned primarily with engaging online audiences with historical content, or, digital research methods, that further academic research. Digital history outputs include: digital archives , online presentations, data visualizations , interactive maps , timelines , audio files, and virtual ...
The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...
The Photo History Timeline Collection; In the eye of the camera — Illustrated historical essay about early photography; Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging; The Digital Camera Museum with accurate history section and many rare items Archived 2017-02-16 at the Wayback Machine; The Fascinating Timeline of Photography Technology
This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone.. Charles Bourseul Johann Philipp Reis Elisha Gray Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Augustus Watson Tivadar Puskás Emile Berliner Charles Sumner Tainter Theodore Newton Vail
Possibly the earliest reference to the term "digital preservation" (to mean converting analog media to digital and preserving in digital form) is from this year. [6] : 124. 1996. January. Web archiving. The initial version of the command-line downloading program Wget, then known as Geturl, is released. [7] [8]
The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer to general history.
The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be the earliest known geared computing device. It was designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in 1901 in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to circa 100 BC. [8]