PF STS

• Information age


  A period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century
• Digital age


  Other term for information age
• New media age


  Other term for information age
• Computer


  The most important contribution to society
• Types of computer


  • Personal computer (PC)
  • Desktop computer
  • Laptops
  • Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
  • Server
  • Mainframes
  • Wearable Computers
• Personal computer (PC)


  • Single user instrument
  • First known as micro computers
• Desktop computer


  • Not designed for portability
  • Set up in permanent spot
• Laptops


  • Battery powered package
  • Called notebooks
  • Larger than typical hardcover book
• Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)


  • Has no keyboards
  • Battery powered
  • Rely on touch screen user input
  • Lightweight
  • Smaller than paperback book
• Server


  • Provides network services to other computers
  • Boast powerful processors
  • Tons of memory
• Mainframes


  • Huge computer systems that can fill the entire room
• Enterprise Server


  Word that replaces Mainframe
• IBM


  International Business Machines
• Wearable Computers


  • Evolved from materials such as cellphones, watches
  • Perform computer applications, database, email, multimedia and schedulers
• Human beings have the ability to adapt to their environment through technology and innovation.
• Internet

  A world wide web system of interconnected networks that facilitates data transmission among innumerable computers
• The Internet is most famous in the 20th and 21st century in our society
• Arpanet


  A direct ancestor of the Internet, developed by the Advanced Research Project Agency
• The Internet was developed by the Department of National Defense


  1970
• Sending data via platform or messaging apps

  1. Data is converted into pieces of ELECTRONIC DATA called PACKETS

  2. PACKETS are tagged with PORT NUMBER OR IP ADDRESS
• Influences of the Internet

  • COMMUNICATION
  • ECONOMICS
  • INDUSTRY
  • HEALTH
  • ENVIRONMENT