torsdag, oktober 30, 2003

Playing with the Media: Computer Games and Media Theory

Vannevar Bush
As We May Think
Douglas Engelbart
Ted Nelson
Nicholas Negroponte
Tough times? Go crazy
Being Wireless


Communication models:
Shannon and Weaver - transmission model

Characteristics of mass media:
Few senders, many receivers.
Organised senders, disorganised receivers.
Organised distribution, random response.

Characteristics of new media:
Many senders, many receivers.
Some organised senders, some disorganised senders, some organised receivers some disorganised receivers.
Organised disribution and random distribution, organised response and random response.

tirsdag, oktober 07, 2003

Internetthistorie

Den første computeren
Charles Babbage Institute: Who was Charles Babbage?
Matematicians: Charles Babbage
University of Exeter: The Babbage pages
Charles Babbage
The difference engine
The difference engine: Hvordan den skulle virke

Den første programmereren
Ada Lovelace: short biography
Augusta Ada King: Countess of Lovelace
Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing
Ada Lovelace
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace

Krigen og kodene
Alan Mathison Turing
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing.net
The Manchester Universal Electronic computer
bilde
Alan Turing: Computer Scientist

Etter krigen: organisering og spredning av kunnskap
Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush: As we may think
Vannevar Bush: Memex Machine
Vannevar Bush: Internett pioner

De nære pionerene
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart og musen
Douglas Engelbart: Father of the mouse
Douglas Engelbart 1968: The Mother of All Demos
om: "alle demonstrasjoners mor"

Ted Nelson: Homepage
Ted Nelson og Xanadu
Ted Nelson og begrepet Hypertext
Xanadu project
Xanadu Australia

Tim Berners-Lee: Oppfinneren av internett
Tim Berners-Lee intervjuet i Time
Tim Berners-Lee, oppfinner
Den første browseren

Den første allment kjente browseren: Mosaic

Nettet
ARPANET kart: An Atlas of Cyberspaces
ARPANET til internett: historien på norsk
Browser timelines

Etter Internett
Dennis G. Jerz: On the trail of the Memex

Hyperteksten og fortellingen
Intervju med Michael Joyce
Hva er en fortelling? what is narrative is what
Nick Montfort: Winchester's Nightmare
Jill Walker: Jill/txt, fortellingen om en kvinnelig akademiker.
Stuart Moulthrop: Hypertekstforfatter



Den siste siden på internettet

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Computers, from the past to the present