Final 4

Created punch card tabulation system for the 1880 census

-Formed IBM company

*Given credit as the inventor of the modern computer

-a construction engineer for the Henschel Aircraft Company in Berlin, Germany

-Invented to help him with his lengthy calculation

-created the first general purpose programmable calculator in 1941

Military Industry

1943: British developed computer used for code breaking

1945: US developed computer for firing of artillery

an electronic device for controlling electronic signals

A technological improvement of transistor

*Transistor and integrated circut board lead to the development of the silicon chip

    -computers get smaller, more powerful, softwear expands

*Created first graphical computer game

    -a version of tic-tac-toe

*University of Cambridge

Wrote the first video game played on a tv set

-Game called Chase

-Was a part of Sanders Associaltion (military electronic firm)

      -first told his idea while working for Loral, a tv company

Created first arcade game

-Game called Computer space based on Steve Russell's earlier game of Spacewar

-Created the arcade game Pong (Nolan Buschnell with help from Al Alcorn)

-started Atari Computers and pong was re-releaser as home video game

Magnavox odyssey

Home pong

Fairchild Channel F

$3 billion in US sales in 1981 alone

-Personal computers (PC) on sale

    *Communication increase between workers

    *Allows distant comp. users to comm.  with on another via phone lines

"a network of networks"

Run by govnt agencies, businesses, universities or individuals

-Constantly changing coluntarily linked network system

-No one owns, runs or regulates the Internet

*A product of the cold war

*To insure survival of computer links in the event of a war

*First Civilian Internet prototype

    -National Science Foundation

*A decentralized system of multiple interconnections between distant computer links

1.  World Wide Web & Hypertext Navigation

2.  The creation of user-friendly web browsers

*A true mass medium

*over 150 million host computers

*100 million households w/ internet

1st. One player vs another or computer

2nd. Text-based multiplayer

3rd. Graphical Multiplayer

  -Diablo

4th. Massive Multiplayer

  -Ultima online

Increaser processing power

Better Graphics

Online Games

*Information Products that that are freely and openly available on the internet which are shaped to a significant degree by the users action and where such actions are voluntary

*User Generated Content

1. Influence what news is reported by mainstream media

2. Give society's nonelites more political power

3. Overthrow dictators

1. More control over the info to the users

2. Making it Cheaper to access and upload info by the users