SOCSCIE 2 - MIDTERM (3)

• 3000 BC Sumerian writing used pictographs to represent words.
• 2900BC Beginning of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
• 1300BC Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used
• 500BC Papyrus roll was used
• 220BC Chinese small seal writing was developed
• 100AD Book (parchment codex)
• 105AD Woodblock printing and paper was invented by Chinese
• 1455 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using movable metal type
• 1755 Samuel Johnson‘s dictionary standardized English spelling
• 1802  The Library of Congress was established Invention of the carbon arc lamp
• 1824 Research on persistence of vision published
• 1830s  First viable design for a digital computer Augusta Lady Byron writes the world‘s first computer program
• 1837 Invention of the telegraph in Great Britain and the United States
• 1861 Motion pictures were projected onto the screen
• 1876 Dewey Decimal system was introduced
• 1877 Edwaerd Muybridge demonstrated high-speed photography
• 1899 First magnetic recordings were released
• 1902 Motion picture special effects were used
• 1906 Lee Deforest invented the electronic amplifying tube
• 1923 Television camera tube was invented by Zvorkyn
• 1926 First practical sound movie
• 1939 Regularly scheduled television broadcasting began in the US
• 1940s Beginnings of information science as a discipline
• 1945 Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention of hypertext
• 1946 ENIAC computer was developed
• 1948 Birth of field- of- information theory proposed byClaude E. Shannon
• 1948 Birth of field- of- information theory proposed by Claude E. Shannon
• 1958 First integrated circuit
• 1960s Library of Congress developed LC MARC (machinereadable code)
• 1969 UNIX operating system was developed, which couldhandle multitasking
• 1971 Intel introduced the first microprocessor chip
• 1972 Optical laserdisc was developed by Philips and MCA
• 1974 MCA and Philips agreed on a standard video discencoding format
• 1975 Altair Microcomputer Kit was released: first personal computer for the public.
• 1977 RadioShack introduced the first complete personalcomputer
• 1984 Apple Macintosh computer was introduced
• Mid 1980s Artificial intelligence was separated from informationscience
• 1987 Hypercard was developed
• 1991 Four hundred fifty complete works of literature onone CD- ROM was released
• January 1997 RSA(encryption and network security software)internet security code cracked for a 48-bit number