Day Two – Part 2

In this section as it mentioned on tutorial task, I would like to write my own experience to use the communication technology.  In my opinion technology is mixed to our everyday life these days, It is very hard - or I can say impossible – to leave a day without using any type of technology.  Just imagine a day without using electricity, telephone, microwave, car, computer, Internet and…..!?!

Especially when we say communication, we talking a bout a most impotent need of people in their social life.  People need to communicate with each other for their life and their work, because we are created as a social member.  The new researches show that increase in number of the mental disease, like depression and anxiety, is mostly because of social problem like spending the time with friends and families.  That is to say, today communication technology is one of the most useful tools for our life.

If I want to talk about my own experience of using communication technology, I would say as I remember back I was in love with my Atari games and when later my parents buy me a commodore128, it was one of my best moment.  Later on at the school we had to do some of our homework by computer, and now as a every day habit, I check my E_mail and I surf the sites to reading the news every morning.  Also, as a student I do all my assignment by using my laptop and I need to search about topic which is using the Internet again. Because I am living alone here I use the chat of telephone to talk to my family and friend in overseas.  If I want to work in any field, I should use different type of soft-wears or contact with so many people.  I couldn’t forget the night before one of my exams that the Internet connection was failed for 2 hours and I was so nerves.  

Day Two

The second lecture was more about history of computer and Internet.  Basically, Internet is all about computer, that is to say, we can not talk a bout the history of Internet independently. 

The first version of computers are based on mathematical calculating machine.  The electrical devices, which is based on digital coding system and has a ability to process data, starts from different version of calculators and it developed very fast during the time, like other type of technology.  In each generation, ability of those processors were increased also the shape and function of them was changed.  Calculations, game, better visual quality, faster processing, better quality of sound, more capacity and etc. was the factors which were caused the development of computers step by step, from calculators to Atari and commodores and then the high technology laptop and desktops in recent years.

According to the lecture, the development of computer is based on Alan Turing’s work.   He was born in England in 1912 and he used his studies in quantum mechanics, probability, logic to write a crucial paper clarifying the computability of numbers and the possibility of a machine to compute them.

Also, IBM was the first company to produce the first generation of the computers, which was large, unwieldy and expensive machines for military, commercially in 1950s.

In addition, some factors such as competition between big companies, like Microsoft and Apple, makes the development of computer technology faster.  every day we can see the new device or software is coming to the market.

However the most use of computer is Internet.  Internet is the network which connect people to getter.  Internet is the best example of communication technology, people can access each other easy and fast from all around the word.  The idea of the Internet is developed by Rand Corporation in 1960 for first time.  World Wild Web (WWW) is not Internet but make the use of Internet and communication easier for Internet users.

There are so many different type of use of Internet and it is various depending on users and their need.  some things like using E-mail is familiar for every one these days.  Mainly, the use of Internet is based on transferring the data by a protocol.