Dear Jeremy DePauw (and others), You might find my personal HCI Timeline interesting -- and maybe even useful, being I was born in 1942 and first started using computers in 1964. It's on my website, and also on Bruce Damer's Digibarn site, with an excerpt in the Encyclopedia of HCI (Berkshire Reference Works, a coupla years ago.) Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________
Jeremy - Might look at Lubar, S. (1993). Infoculture: the Smithsonian Book of Information Age Inventions. New York, Houghton Mifflin. Cheers, Denise Smithsonian might have something online as well. Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0427 245 497 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
This is a good History of ICT clutch of URLs (timelines etc) http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/icthistory/ For my money, the one real ICT that has impacted virtually everyone's day to day life and work (in the Western economies) is the old bog standard phone.
From being a relatively rare and (in the UK at least) only for use in emergencies and usually located in the coldest part of the house (ours at home in North London, in the '60s, was in the coast cupboard in the hallway - very typical) it became, via direct dial and long distance, a virtually ubiquitous means of organising and running our social, work, and economic lives - from chatting to my neighbour next door to friends 4000 miles away - almost without thinking.
Dominic Pinto BA MIEEE MCMI MRi FRSA http://www.ecademy.com/user/dominicpinto e-m: dominic.pinto@ieee.org M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph: +44 207 379-8341 In the U.S. M/Cell: +1 215 667-3001
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