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• Information Age is also known as Computer Age, Digital Age, New Media Age and Internet Age.
• Information age is a historic period in the 21st century.
• Information age is a rapid shift from traditional industry to industrial revolution.
• During 1965, Moore's law was formulated.
• Early 1980s - production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers.
• 1995 - Nicholas Negroponte published his book, Being Digital.
• Primary Information Age was the invention of newspaper, radio, television.
• Secondary Information - invention of internet, satellite, television and mobile phones.
• Pre - industrial - about 2.5 million years before writing was developed.
• Egyptians used papyrus scrolls.
• Sumerians used clay tablets.
• Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.
• Industrial age began around 1760 in Great Britain.
• Industrial age is the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines.
• Samuel F. B Morse invented the telegraph.
• Alexander Graham Ball patent the telephone.
• Telephone is an electrical tool transmitting analogue speech along wires.
• Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
• Heinrich Hertz identified and studied radio waves in 1886.
• Guiglielmo Marconi developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers.
• Philo Transworth invented the first fully electronic television.
• Electronic age began with electronic equipment and large technologies.
• Electronic age is where computer came into use.
• Electronic age - long distance communication became more efficient.
• Enigma machine - spook hardware used as a way of deciphering German signal traffic during the World War II.
• During the electronic age, the transistor radio became the most popular electronic communication.
• Electronic Age - EDSAC - Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator - the first stored program electronic computer.
• Electronic age - ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer - the first electronic general purpose digital computer.
• UNIVAC - Universal Automatic Computer - line of electronic digital stored program computer.
• IBM - International Business Machine - the first mass produced computer with floating - point arithmetic hardware.
• Hewlett Packard 9100A - an early computer/programmable calculator.
• Floppy disk - removal magnetic storage medium.
• Walkman - used for portable audio cassette players.
• Information age - the advanced use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices and wearable technology.
• Information age - voice, image, sound and data are digitalized.
• Youtube - created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
• Youtube is an online-video sharing platform.
• Youtube allow users to view, upload, report, subscribe and comment on videos.
• Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow roommates and students.
• Facebook is a popular global social networking website.