Ten Questions.Day3

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?

he could be seen riding his bicycle while wearing a gas-mask to prevent hay-fever
http://www.nels.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/GURPS/WWII/Turing.htm

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=Alan+Turing+riding&page=1&qsrc=0&dm=all&ab=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcozybeehive.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fthat-strange-bicyclist-alan-turing.html&sg=P1ztt8vfjiUiR6MCrT2xaGLx6ZwkB4hCcCHCKBWi%2BRE%3D&tsp=1259508164871

2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?

First two computers communicated with each other was September 2, 1969 from http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/02/birth-of-the-internet/
In University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=the+history+of+computers&page=1&qsrc=2352&dm=all&ab=6&title=The+History+of+the+Computer&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merchantos.com%2Farticles%2Finformational%2Fthe-history-of-the-computer%2F&sg=4XC3F1fmLI3oeGKVyjpzvl%2BKaGt79GPcs%2FkN%2FjEBziU%3D&tsp=1259507787436

3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?

Bill Gates’ birthday is on October 28th 1955 and he sold his first software at the age of 25 to IBM.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=bill+gates+biography&form=QBRE&filt=all&qs=AS&pq=Bill+Gates

4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?

Geneva, Switzerland at CERN
at Yahoo http://www.technologyforall.com/TechForAll/webdata.html

5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?

the major comparisons is that commands had to be typed by the user in 1981 rather than by the use of a mouse nowadays
http://www.bing.com/search?q=+power+a+personal+computer+from+30+years+ago&form=QBRE&filt=all&qs=n


6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
I couldn't find any


7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?

Queensland became a state in 1901
http://www.qld.gov.au/about-queensland/history/
beacuse 1859 Queensland New South Wales border proclaimed
http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/museum/articles_complete/surveying/proclaim.html

8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
high of 28 degrees and a low of 19 degrees
www.wunderground.com/history/airport/YBBN/1954/11/17/DailyHistory

9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?

He bragged that he had sex with 250 women over the course of one year. The sheer brazenness and multiplicity of his sexual swath astonished people.

http://englishhistory.net/byron/moorebyron.html

10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?

BLACK ASSASSINS
http://www.bing.com/search?q=+band+Sirhan+Chapman+play&go=&form=QBRE&filt=all&qs=n

the name is Steve Stockwell
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~toxicoh/blackas.htm#members

every day life .Day5

Every day life

• Actual

• Virtual

Communtiy-Collabortion-Choice.Day4

Community-Collaboration-Choice

• Creative common.
• Free software=Free culture.
• CC licences.

Creative common CC :

Started in Dec 2002

Some of its important features are :

• Non-profit organisation.
• Available to everyone.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

Free"Libra" Software

first let's ask this question..

How does software work ?..source code

Historically software was for free !

for this reasons and more came what we called Free Software Foundation’s which established by Richard M Stallman. Also came alongside the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).

His first goal was to create free UNIX-like software.

After some time came the concept OPEN SOURCE as an attempt to push 'free software' into business.

Another kind of software is "Proprietary software " closed software".

For example:(Ms-Windows/MacOs/Ms-Office/ Internet explore) etc..

Themes From Internet Studies.Day3

When we say Internet studies we have to put in mind...

• Virtual community.

which mean human feeling on web forms.

• Individual identity.

Identity play "be someone else".

• Shared interests.

In Early times (groups shared the same idea).

• Ego-centric social network.

mostly focus on self interests "center of attention" rather than group interests.

Important time in the history of the Internet "WEB 2.0" year 2000

Tim O'Reilly and his Friends restored trust and faith back to the Internet,which produce

the "web 2.0" concept. And here some the features...

• Organising knowledge (using "tags" on posted items).
• User-generated content (Make our own stuff).
• Open API -Sharing data between services.

Social Media

• web blogs(blogs,mob logs,micro blogs"twitter"etc.
• Social network services (SNS's) like (Myspace/facebook/blogs) etc..
• Content sharing communities ...such as (flicker/YouTube/blip) etc..

But for some this services has some drawback to it ...

Your information is open for the public "used mostly for marketing , Ads or Economy".

you should ask yourself these questions ..

• who owns your stuff?
• mostly about social people (Friends) and there no anti-social ?
• are we consumers? or creators?
• what role will you play in the"social Media "landscape?

The Histroy of Computers And Internet.Day2

The History of Computer
the idea of the first was just a calculating machine because the name "computer" was originally a job title so computers came first to do those tasks that were usually being done by women to compute navigational tables, tide charts, and planetary positions for astronomical almanacs .

The first computer that was built is by Charles Babbage in 19th century England. He was a mathematician and proposed construction of a machine that could have been called later the Babbage Difference Engine which not only calculated numbers, it would also be capable of printing mathematical tables.

After years of success the first programmable computer appeared in 1943 by the name Turing COLOSSUS that was used in World War II for coded messages.after that in 1946 the first electronic computer came. In 1951 U.S. Census Bureau became the first government agency to buy a computer.

In 1977 Apple started to sell computers to the public , and later in 1981 IBM PC followed.

For more info on the subject see
http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/Time_Line.php
http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/home/microcomputers
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?gclid=CJOj5s35r54CFc0vpAodrXT0mA
.......
The History of the Internet

the Internet was in 1969 called ARPANET that was used by the Department of Defense which laid the groundwork for Internet, U.S.A. to connect air force bases together in case of any nuclear attack against the united states. From that time being used only by the military until the mid eighties when it started to be used by some the universities and educational institutions in the USA.
In 1993-94 the Internet started to catch the public's fancy.

The manckincsm of the Internet can be summries as...
.Packet
.Package
.Route-address-tags
.Firewall
. web server

WWW-world wide web
This means "the Internet" as know in this days

For more info...
http://vimeo.com/groups/3200/videos/2696386

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

The Histroy of Computers And Internet

explore the hidden kingdom

The History Of Communication

A brief definition of ''Communication'' is the actual interaction between two parties to spread or transfer information.

This started through drawings and day to day conversation and developed into books and poetry where our history and culture was saved in time.

In this way we were able to communicate the past to our future generation.

Now days through the internet and blogs like facebook the new generation is using it to explore and save history be that through just a blog backpacking through countries on facebook which family and friends can read or a president twittering his stance on an issue in his country. In this way instead of taking months to share our thoughts and lives it takes only the time to hit enter or send on our mobile, phones, laptops or desktop.