1971 Ted Hoff invents the microprocessor. First edition of the UNIX operating system released from Bell Labs. (Various varieties of UNIX follow.) Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail message and designates “@” as the locator symbol for electronic addresses. 1972 Nolan Bushnell founds Atari and introduces Pong, the first modern commercial video game.… Read More »
1960s Doug Engelbart prototypes an “oNLine System” (NLS) which does browsing among linked documents, editing and email. He invents the mouse for helping perform these tasks. Influenced by Engelbart and Bush, Ted Nelson begins work about a form of non-sequential writing he calls hypertext. Nelson also imagines Xanadu, a global chain of public access “Silver… Read More »
1900s Nickelodeons become popular in the United States. 1901 Guglielmo Marconi perfects a wireless radio system that transmits Morse code over the Atlantic Ocean. 1903 German scientist Arthur Korn invents the fax machine. The Great Train Robbery becomes the first feature film. 1912 David Sarnoff, a Marconi wireless operator in New York, receives the SOS… Read More »
c. 3000 B.C. Chinese entertainers use firelight to project silhouettes of puppets onto a screen. Fundamentally, movies and video representations throughout all future technologies rely on this same principle: casting light onto a flat surface to communicate visually. 165 Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy proves the phenomena of rapidly moving still pictures appearing as one moving image.… Read More »
This syllabus was written in the fall of 2000 for a journalism course taught by former UW-Oshkosh Department of Journalism adjunct faculty member Matthew Stanton. Note that many of the recommend links below now go to dead sites, but are included here for reference back on the coursework of the time. SUMMARY: Spring 2001 instruction… Read More »