Today's lecture was interesting as we studied the history of cmputers and the internet which is something that we are born with but often not aware of its real development. The first thing I was wondering even before the lecture was "why history matters?"
Calculator which is the first computer was invented as an extension of human abilities in the goal of helping people to do complex calculation, the primary use of computers was for military purposes and business uses. In today's lecture we have seen as well that there was two way of thinking concerning computers and the internet: on one hand freedom and openness, which is putting up ideas for free and for anyone and on the other hand the business way of thinking which is concerned withpaying for it. By the end of the lecture I started to understand why history is of importance in New Communication Technologies. As an illustration of this last sentence and considering what we learned during the lecture we can say that the internet comes from a set of historical and cultural moments and that is why history matters.
I want also to add that the videos posted on the bottom of my blog are realy good as brief overviw to undertand the compouter and the internet timeline. In fact the videos sum up the history of he internet and the computer with nice images and all the important cultural and historical elements are explained.
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