Early Histories of the Internet
So Many Parts!
Jentery Sayers | Unlearning the Internet | Week 1
DHum 150 | UVic English | 7 January 2019
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This survey is not intended to be exhauastive.
Movable Type (11th c.)
Small, resuable clay blocks to set characters
Video care of UNESCO
Printing Press (15th c.)
Gutenberg Press + Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1455)
"more books were published in the first fifty years following Gutenberg
than had been produced in the previous thousand years" (Donald Cardwell)
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Automata
self-operating machines especially popular
during the 18th and 19th c.
Video care of the BBC
Steam Engines (18th c.)
mechanical work driven by steam pressure, pistons, and cylinders
Video care of the BBC
Mechanical Digital Computer (19th c.)
an analytical engine fed binary code on punched cards
Video care of Bucks New Uni.
Telegraph Network (19th c.)
transmit messages across distance through infrastructure
Video care of Library of Congress Prelinger Archive
Other Parts to Consider
Railroads, Factories, Jacquard Looms, Phonography, Photography, Moving Images, Film, Radio, Magazines, and ...?
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