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UNIT 1-Introduction-to-Digital-Age

The document provides an overview of the evolution of communication from early times to the present digital age. It discusses various early forms of communication including cave paintings, carved stones, carrier pigeons, and marathon runners used to deliver messages. Key developments that enabled more advanced communication are also outlined such as the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and early computer networks. The digital age is defined as starting in the 1970s with the introduction of computers and the integration of telecommunications. Important milestones that shaped modern communication like the internet, World Wide Web, email, instant messaging, blogging, Facebook, and Twitter are also summarized.

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UNIT 1-Introduction-to-Digital-Age

The document provides an overview of the evolution of communication from early times to the present digital age. It discusses various early forms of communication including cave paintings, carved stones, carrier pigeons, and marathon runners used to deliver messages. Key developments that enabled more advanced communication are also outlined such as the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and early computer networks. The digital age is defined as starting in the 1970s with the introduction of computers and the integration of telecommunications. Important milestones that shaped modern communication like the internet, World Wide Web, email, instant messaging, blogging, Facebook, and Twitter are also summarized.

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Bato Institute of Science And Technology, Inc.

Dolho, Bato, Letyte

LIVING IN THE I.T. ERA


Name: ___________________________________________ Week 1 Aug. 14-19. 2023

UNIT 1: Introduction to Digital communicate in this Information or


Digital Age.
Age
So how did Communication Evolve?
At the end of this module, you are
expected to:
1. Know when the digital age
took place
2. Identify the different types of
communication from early
time up to the present
3. Know the role and importance
of ICT Cave Paintings and Carve Stones
Imaginative art or some form of
What does it mean when we say communication were discovered by
Digital Age? archaeologists in the cave paintings
It is a period in human history that and carved stones done by
started when computers were Neanderthals or early homo sapiens
introduced in the 1970s. It is that dates backs to around 130,000 to
evident in the rapid shift from 100,000 B.C
mechanical industrialization to
technological innovation.
The Digital Age is also termed as Carrier Pigeons
the Information Age, Computer Another means of communication was
Age, or New Media Age. the use of homing pigeons which dates
An important thing to note is that back to no less than 2,900 BC, when
the meaning of the Digital Age will ships coming into Egyptian ports
continue to change over time as discharged pigeons to report
new technologies or devices will imperative guests. The Egyptian army
be developed through research likewise utilized bearer pigeons for
and development that will military correspondence. Homing
ultimately impact how we as pigeons were additionally utilized for
humans will interact. correspondence in China, India, Persia,
and numerous different parts of Asia.
Now let us define what is ICT? Around 2,350 BC, King Sargon of
ICT or Information and Communication Akkadia sent a homing pigeon out with
Technology pertains to the unification every one of his detachments. By 776,
and integration of telecommunication transporter pigeons were being utilized
lines (wireless or not), computers, to convey the news of Olympic triumphs
software and systems that enable to Athens.
access, storage, transmittal, and
manipulation of information. It Marathon Man
concentrates on advancing the way we The Story of Pheidippides is that which
inspired the sporting spectacle of
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Marathon running. Pheidippides an demonstration of long-distance
Athenian Herald or Courier was said to television transmission. Reporters
have run from Marathon to Athens to watched as a TV image of Secretary of
report that the Greeks won against the Commerce Herbert Hoover was sent
Persians in the Battle of Marathon from Washington, D.C. to New York by
phone lines.
First Daily Newspaper
The first daily newspaper ever to be Internet
distributed was the Einkommende Inter-networking began with when
Zeitungen in July 1, 1650 in Leipzig, Packet switching networks which
Germany. The name of the newspaper included the ARPANET project of the US
means “approaching daily papers”. Protection Office joined multiple
separate networks into a network of
Telegraph networks.
The Telegraph was created in the 1840s
by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and World Wide Web
different designers. It worked by The World Wide Web was developed
transmitting electrical flags over a wire from 1989 to 1994 at the European
laid between stations. Notwithstanding Council for Nuclear Research and was
designing the broadcast, Samuel Morse made freely available to the world in
built up a code (bearing his name) 1994.
which came to be known as the Morse
code. Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging basically began in
The Telephone the 70s and 80s but the new era of
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), instant messaging can be credited to
best known as the designer of the America Online (AOL) AIM which
phone, worked at a school for the hard gained popularity in May 1997
of hearing while at the same time
endeavoring to imagine a machine that Blogging 1999
would transmit sound by power. Bell was In 1999, the word blog sprung up and
awarded the principal official patent for after five years, the term blog, was
his phone in March 7, 1876, however he announced the expression of the year
would later face a very long time of by Merriam-Webster.
lawful difficulties to his case that he was
its sole creator, bringing about one of Facebook
history's longest patent fights. Facebook, the world's most mainstream
interpersonal interaction site was
Radio Signal launched in February 2004. It was
In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi an Italian founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
inventor pioneered long-distance radio
transmission and transmitted the first Twitter
transatlantic radio signal from Cornwall Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey,
to Newfoundland. Noah Glass, Business Stone, and Evan
Television Broadcast Williams in 2006. Rapidly gained
In April 7, 1927, AT&T (Bell Telephone popularity as of 2017 has 100 million daily
Company) held the first public active users.

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Importance and benefits of ICT to the By using ICT systems we are:
Society and individuals More productive as we are able to deal
For Health: with transmit and receive vast amounts
✓ Easy access to patient records. of information and process it quickly
✓ Access to medical information
✓ Online Appointment/s. Test your understanding
✓ Database for Medical Inventory 1. Is the device a part of a computer
✓ Organized information about system? If yes, is it a computer
individual patients peripheral? If not, how is this
device classified?
For Education: 2. Do a comparative analysis of how
✓ Research and Resource over the did communication evolve.
internet.
✓ New ways and style of learning. Note: Avoid copying your answer using
✓ Remote learning. google search. I will not accept your
✓ Skills for life. answer if found out plagiarized. Go to
your google classroom account and
For the Solution of Crimes: submit your output there.
✓ Media and Communication.
✓ Storage and access of References and Supplementary
information. Materials Online Supplementary
✓ Forensic, Tracing and Fraud Reading Materials :
prevention. 1. ICT systems and their usage;
✓ Database and prevention of fraud. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit
✓ Saves time. esize/ict/system/0ictsystemsrev1.shtml;
May 9, 2018
For Communication: 2. Benefits of ICT for Society and
✓ Ways of communication using ICT. Individuals;
✓ Communication using E-mail, IM https://www.scribd.com/doc/44798019
etc. /Benefits-of-ICT-for-Society-
✓ Easy communication system andIndividuals; May 9, 2018
benefits. 3. The evolution of communication:
effects on the world of science;
For Business: https://sci10sectionm.wordpress.com/2
✓ Changing ways of business. 013/12/08/the-evolution of
✓ Information technology. communication-effects-on-the-world-
✓ E-commerce (selling/buying). of-science/; May 9, 2018
✓ Online Banking.
✓ For Work
✓ Work can be carried out easily.
✓ Information about work can be Prepared by:
accessed from anywhere.
✓ Work can be taken to different Mary Jane Pagay – Cierva, LPT
location. Instructor
✓ Efficient and organized way of
storing file.

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