[Air-l] ICT's Timeline: thanks and first draft

[Julian Hopkins]

Hello Jeremy,

I'm surprised you don't include the Sinclair ZX80 (see e.g.
http://www.oldcomputers.net/zx80.html ) in your timeline - I may be mistaken
but I think it was the first 'PC' that was cheap enough to go straight into
the average household - the ZX81 had more of a mass market and then it was
followed by the Spectrum. 

I remember playing my first computer game on a ZX81, and using them in
school too :)

On the database question - I would say that yes they have to be considered.
However a database is in essence just a list of things - which must have
been around ever since the first sapiens tried to tell someone about their
favourite gathering spots :) So how and why (or if) they become something
exclusively 'IT' I don't know.

Mark Poster deals with the significance of databases in a Foucauldian
manner: Poster, Mark.  The Second Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press; 1995.

Regards,

Julian


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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:52:53 +0200
From: "Jeremy Depauw" <jeremy.depauw at gmail.com>
Subject: [Air-l] ICT's Timeline: thanks and first draft
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Dear all !

Firstly, I would like to thank readers who have taken some of their time to
answer my question about ICT's Timeline.  Lots of suggestions were very
usefull.

Now I would like to present the first draft I made since I manages to catch
a first wave of dates and ideas.  To view it, feel free to click on that
link <http://dev.ulb.ac.be/%7Ejdepauw/telecharger/EN_timeline-TIC.pdf>. I
think that my info are still too "computer oriented" but by the way, I am
not sure there is so much other fields of innovation for my question. I
translated it very quickly and the layout is still to be improved.

My new motivation is here to ask for an advice : should I consider the
history of "databases" as relevant in my reflection and should I link it to
the developpement of on-line ressources ? (which I couldn't take into
account yet)

-- 
Jeremy Depauw

The Power of Knoweldge Sharing and Skills Synegism
Journal de recherche: http://dev.ulb.ac.be/~jdepauw/dotclear/index.php