CMNS 253W Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Samuel Morse, Teleprinter, Punched Tape
18 Jan 2016
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Chapter 2 - the history of new media. The telegraph o o o o o o o o o o o o. New media different from old media in many ways, however some aspects of old media set pattern for things to come. Challenge of old forms of communication - to send a message any farther than you can see, you"d have to send a physical object to carry the message. 1800s - attention to potential for wires to send messages. Samuel morse - credited for bringing the telegraph into popular use (may not have invented it) Credited for the coding system - morse code - dots and dashes. Idea of using a digital coding scheme to break a message down into smaller fragments was revolutionary. Can be seen as something that led to the contemporary binary system used by computers now, with dots as os and dashes as is. Established an approach to digitization of information that has o.
