Class Two: History of Computers and the Internet

There is a lot of work to do today, so get ready to work quickly and independently!!

Part One: 15 minutes

Review of Reading: Discussion (You do not need to write up your answers but, you must KNOW the information for the “partiel final” on the last day of class)

Alberganti: L’internet l’an 01

What was the first word sent over the internet?

What was this network called at the beginning? Why?

What four universities were involved?

Why was the concept of the “Intergalactic Network” by Licklider important to the development of the internet?

What is the Packet Switching idea by Leonard Kleinrock? How did this help?

What was the name of the network in France developed by Pouzin?

Why was the French public behind in its adoption of the Internet?

Castells: Le développement d’internet…

What discipline does Manuel Castells do research in?

What is his precision on the definition of a “hacker”?

What is the difference between a hacker and a cracker?

In what other domains does he see the “hacker ethic” or “hacker culture”?

How does he say that society influences technology?

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Part Two: divide your time between sections A and B

History of the internet and the PC (sections A and B)

Try using these different search engines instead of (or in addition to) Google.

Here is the link to Exalead: http://www.exalead.com/search/

Here is the link to Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com

Ask dot com: http://www.ask.com

Dogpile Meta Search: http://www.dogpile.com

All the web: http://www.alltheweb.com

Look below for more links to informative sites about the early days of the Internet.

Section A ------------------------

Find out what these names correspond to in the history of computers and the internet (share the work and answers with your classmates if necessary): You do not need to know everything about this person or thing, only its relationship to computers or internet.

Ada Lovelace (approx what year? What was her partnership with Charles Babbage? )	Linus Torvalds
ENIAC	ICQ
Usenet	IBM
Steve Wozniak	ATARI

Section B ------------------------

Important Dates for computers and the internet: Answer the questions with the appropriate date. Then, add up the total number to see if you have the correct answers.

1) When did William Schockley invent the transistor?
2) When was email invented? (Choose the earlier date if you find any differences)
3) When was Chat – Internet Relay Chat – invented?
4) When was the World Wide Web introduced to the Internet? (Choose the earlier date if you find any differences)
5) When was the first popular Browser introduced? (the answer begins with an “M”)
6) When was the P2P program Napster introduced to the internet to share Mp3 files?
7) When was the WSIS of Geneva?
	Total = 13,890

Related questions:

1) How did the transistor change computers (and other electronic devices)?

2) Who invented email? Where did he work?

3) What country did IRC first come from?

4) Who invented the WWW? Where did he work? How did the WWW change the way people interacted with the internet?

5) What was the name of this first popular Browser? What other browser did its inventors create later?

6) Who invented this P2P program? How old was he? When did this free service stop and why?

7) Why was the WSIS important for the development of the Internet?

Part Three: HOMEWORK

Read the Introduction chapter to Howard Rheingold’s The Virtual Community. http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/

You can read it in French if you would like (translated by Lionel Lumbroso). http://www.well.com/user/hlr/texts/VCFRIntro.html

Please let me know if it is translated into your language (for ex, Spanish, German, Romanian, Japanese) and available online.

Some references and more information ---------------------------------

Walt Howe’s Internet Learning Center http://www.walthowe.com/ilrntree.html

Video of the History of the Internet: http://vimeo.com/2696386 A bit technical, but simplified and an interesting look at the international aspects of networked communication.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0XCaUkfNk&feature=related Internet Explained.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DA-jA17gy4&feature=related How internet works.

History of Arpanet/Internet show 04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECMNddHEbjY