The document discusses the history of the Information Age from ancient times to the present. It divides this history into four periods: the Pre-Mechanical period from 3000 BC to 1450 AD, which saw the development of writing systems and early calculation tools; the Mechanical period from 1450-1840 that brought movable type printing and slide rules; the Electro-Mechanical period from 1840-1940 that introduced technologies like the telegraph, telephone, and early computers; and the modern Electronic/Information period from 1940 onward, where electronic computers were developed and advanced through generations using newer technologies like integrated circuits.

1. The Information Age

2. What is the Information Age?
People, Information & Societies that chronicle
the birth and growth of electronic information --
from ancient times to Samuel Morse's invention
of the telegraph in the 1830s, through the
development of the telephone, radio, television,
and computer.
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm

3. Four Periods of The Information Age
 Pre-Mechanical - 3000 B.C.-1450 A.D.
 Mechanical - 1450-1840
 Electro-Mechanical - 1840-1940
 Electronic/Information -1940-Present

4. The Pre-Mechanical Age
 Writing and Alphabets:
 Cuneiform, Symbols
 Paper and Pen:
 Papermaking
 Books and Libraries:
 Religious Scrolls, Binding
 Numbering Systems:
 Numbers 1-9, Zero
 The First Calculators
 The Abacus
3000 B.C.-1450 A.D.

5. The Mechanical Age
 Movable Type Printing
 General Purpose Computers (people who used numbers)
 Slide Rule
 Analog Computer
 Key Punch Computer
 Binary Logic
 Real Time Operated Computers
1450-1840

6. The Electro-Mechanical Age
 Telecommunications
 Voltaic Battery
 Telegraph
 Morse Code
 Telephones and Radios
 Computing
 Census Machine
 Mark 1
 Paper Stored
 Programming
1840-1940
Picture of a 1986 Telephone
from Vendsyssel Historiske Museum in Hjørring, Denmark
© 2004 by Tomasz Sienicki

7. Information Age
 Electronic Vacuum Tubes
 Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
 Manchester Mark 1
 First Computer for Commercial Use
1840-Present

8. Computer Generations
 First Generation (1951-1958)
 Main Logic Elements
 Externally Stored Information
 Machine and Assembly
Language
 Compilers
 Second Generation (1959-
1963)
 Transistors
 Semi-Conductors
 High-Level Programming
 Fortran/Cobol
 Third Generation (1964-
1978)
 Integrated Circuits
 Magnetic Tape and Disk
 Operating Systems
 BASIC
 Fourth Generation (1979-)
 Large Scale Circuits
 Central Processing Units
 Apple II/Apple Mac
 IBM/MS-DOS/GUI
 MS Windows

9. Pioneers in Information Technology
 John Mauchly
 J. Prosper Eckert
 John Von Neumann
 Blaise Pascal
 William Oughtred
 Gottfried von Leibniz
 Charles Babbage
 Augusta Ada Byron
 Alexander Graham Bell
 Herman Hollerith
 Howard Aiken
 Max Newman
 Maurice Wilkes
 Steven Wozniak
 Steven Jobs
 Bill Gates