The information age

Audio

Speech

audio was transmittesd through radio waves. These waves were analogue. Analogue waves were disturbed by weather conditions ie, if you would switch on the radio 20 years ago, most channels would give you a scrambled sound

Music

Video

High definition

back in the 1970s, colored videos never existed. Video existed in black and white, now you have high definition video that allows you to see things at a higher level of what the eye can see

3D

3D technology gives you the ability to watch videos with the three dimensions width length and depth (watch video the way you see in real life)

Images

High resolution

images quality used to be terrible and you wouldnt have the ability to zoom in so much and still see the image clearly, you would see the pixels overlaping each other

Text

things had to be handwritten or typed on a typewriter that would give out very poor quality printouts with only black ink. you now have color printers different font sizes, types and much more.

Hyperlinks

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Speeds

dial up was the only way to connect to the internet with a speed of about 56 Kb/s, compared to today , this is as useless as a tc with no speakers

now we have different methods of connecting to the intenet with a variety of speeds reaching up to 1 Gb

Costs

prices of internet connections have dropped dramastically from when it was first imtroduced

Connetion

Fibre Optics

no fibre optics existed

DSL

cables had to be joined from the modem/router to the main phone line to be able to dial the inter service provider for internet access

using the phone line would have automatically disconnected you from the internet so it was either phone or internet

Satellite Connections

satellites were never used to provide internet connection but might have been used to allow calls and communication via phones

cell phones used to have this long antennae that would act as a base of recieving satellite waves now cell phones dont have antennae and can be used wherever you are

WWW

search engine

browsers

information store

Communication

E-mail

no emails existed, instead post mails

post mails sometimes may never get to people sent to

Stamps were required

taken by the mail man and he is in charge of delivering them

IM

VOIP

never existed,

cards were used on telephone lines to call people from over seas where u had to call the person who is in charge of communication to direct ur call to the number u want to dial

Video

Sharing

Social networks

Facebook

Twitter

Myspace

Blogs

people had no way of sharing information with others

Wikipedia

Entertainment

Games

Videos

Downloading

Network

Shopping

Ebay

Amazon

DVB

DBV systems distribute data in several ways

Microwaves

some waves reach up to a speed of 170 GHz

first used in 1888

Satellites

Cables

Fibre obtic cables

Optical cables send data at 182,000 km/s

These plastic-fiber cables are used mainly for digital audio connections between devices.

Satelllite

DVR

Quality

Bandwidth

analogue

could be distrupted by weather conditions

digital

what ever happens to the signal wave, it could be retrieved if run through a filter

you can now send and recieve files in hyper speed due to the extreme bandwidth speeds it would take only a matter of seconds to send a file from one computer to the other

LAN

The LAN allows all devices connected to the network to gain access to the internet, files and documents.

Public

you can now gain access to internet in places un imaginable, on planes or even underground.

Router

wireless router that allow access to as many devices as possible when back i the old days only one computer could run on the line

In home

when the internet was first invented, you had to connect your router to the phone line and directly to the computer now you just connect your phone line to the router and the router provides wi-fi signals throughout a certain range