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TELEPHONES"Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh on this day in 1847. Bell is generally credited with inventing the telephone - he also dabbled with giant kites, flying machines and hydrofoils. A commonly used unit of sound, the decibel, is named after Bell." (heritage.scotsman.com, 3/3/06) "The first telephone call in the United Kingdom was made on this day in 1878 by Queen Victoria, and it was a Scotsman to thank for the breakthrough. Alexander Graham Bell was demonstrating his new invention to the Queen, and it has now gone on to forever change the world. Read more about Bell at heritage.scotsman.com" "June 1st is a day of firsts. On this day in 1880, the first telephone box was installed (in New Haven, Connecticut); ...and in 1946, the first television licenses were issued in the U.K. at £2." (scotsman.com) "On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service....Perfect Test of Transcontinental Line Made by Inventors of Bell and Watson. 4,750-MILE RECORD SET. President Wilson, Mayor Mitchel, and Other Noted Men Participate in Celebration." (nytimes.com, 25/1/06) |
TELEVISION"On this day [18 Dec] in 1856 Joseph John Thomson was born in Manchester, England, of Scots parents. Thomson was an eminent physicist who discovered electrons and sub-atomic particles. He also invented the mass spectrometer and did a great deal of work on cathode ray tubes. Thomson was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1906 and was knighted two years later. He followed in the footsteps of another great Scot, James Clerk Maxwell." (Scotsman.com update, 18 December 2006) "On 14 March 1952, the first television programme was broadcast in Scotland. The programme featured the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society performing the Duke of Edinburgh Reel." heritage.scotsman.com TV-BBC Archive - Birth of TV / Crystal Palace / TV Anniversary / Facts & Figures Black & White - Colour |
COMPUTERS/LAPTOPS"Apple's journey began in 1976 when two college dropouts - Jobs, a marketing whiz, and his friend Steve Wozniak, an engineering genius - filed partnership papers on April Fools' Day, their eyes set on building and selling personal computers. Another friend, Ron Wayne, opted out of the risky venture within two weeks. Their first product was a build-it-yourself computer kit. A year later, in 1977, the Apple II microcomputer was born. It was not the first personal computer but it was the most successful - a hit not just among engineers, but home users, too. Many credit the Apple II as the genesis of the personal computer revolution." Apple Turns 30 |
INTERNETHistory of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia / World's First Web Server "In a study by Zaheer Hussain and Mark D. Griffiths, it was found that just over one in five gamers (21%) said they preferred socializing online to offline. Significantly more male gamers than female gamers said that they found it easier to converse online than offline. It was also found that 57% of gamers had created a character of the opposite gender, and it is suggested that the online female persona has a number of positive social attributes." (wikipedia, 29/9/09) "Web 2.0" = audience, feed, column, community, content, create, home page, link, email, money, online, post, rss, share, syndicate, tag, users "dozens of companies that are infusing once-static Web pages with the power, speed, and features of sophisticated desktop applications. And by combining these online applications with the new wireless and broadband communications ability of the Web, they are redefining the Internet itself...people can do much more than store documents online. They can also collaborate, often in new and unique ways. Groups can work together on a document, making changes that appear in real time and doing so without the need to reload the Web page...[Newsvine.com] allows users to create their own home pages and columns and comment on every story. Top stories are selected according to user patterns, not by editors. Users even get to keep 90% of the ad revenue that their home pages generate.... "Power is shifting toward the individual, operating at the edge of the network and away from the giant companies at the center of the network," says Michael Arrington, chairman of edgeio.com and the founder of techcrunch.com, a popular blog that tracks Web 2.0 companies... YOUR NEWS, YOUR WAY. The new business model begins with a platform & set of user tools based on Web 2.0 tech. It's used to attract a community of users, which in turn create a marketplace on the Web... "The content and brand emerges at the end of the cycle and it's created by the users," Young says" [Troy Young, ex. vice-president & chief "experience architect" at Organic, online advertising & consulting firm] |
VOIP'Time
Warner Cable added 880,000 voice subscribers in 2005,
for a total of 1.1m in 2005" "Skype's free PC-to-PC calling service has also gotten significant traction, with more than 75 million subscribers. And the $2.6 billion acquisition [2005] of the small European company by eBay has definitely raised VoIP's profile." (source = ? ) (Skype is a registered trademark of Skype Ltd, 2006) |
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