Chapter 11 - Conclusion page #261 - 264
Updates Submitted by Dan Mollette
Update #1:
Location: page #261 second paragraph
Suggestions: although the author is correct about there not being 'novels' as we see them today, Biblical reverences go back many years before 1500 A.D.
Manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls are a type of 'novel' or 'reverence book'. They were used probably only viewed, by very few people - mostly the 'educated and scholarly'.
Update #2
Location: page #263 second paragraph
Suggestions: See below. The reference to "the American researchers developed the idea of linking hundreds of small computers together to run a single machine' intrigued me. I had thought that the idea of a 'internet' had gone back much further, and did a little research on my own.
Origins of the Internet
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a [[#JCRL62|series of memos]] written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, [[#darpa|4]] starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. (http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins)
Chapter 11 - Conclusion page #261 - 264
Updates Submitted by Dan Mollette
Update #1:
Location: page #261 second paragraph
Suggestions: although the author is correct about there not being 'novels' as we see them today, Biblical reverences go back many years before 1500 A.D.
Manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls are a type of 'novel' or 'reverence book'. They were used probably only viewed, by very few people - mostly the 'educated and scholarly'.
Update #2
Location: page #263 second paragraph
Suggestions: See below. The reference to "the American researchers developed the idea of linking hundreds of small computers together to run a single machine' intrigued me. I had thought that the idea of a 'internet' had gone back much further, and did a little research on my own.
Origins of the Internet
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a [[#JCRL62|series of memos]] written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, [[#darpa|4]] starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. (http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins)