Readings: Week 1

As you can see in both Some dates in the history of communication technologies - McGaughey, William (2011)  and The History of Communication, people have been communication trough technology for ages. I find the information in the first article a bit hard to read since it is only a litany of different years and names mentioned in one short sentence. The article is divided into different categories as well that makes it even more complex. What I do find interesting is that McGaughey gave me new, detailed information about technology from B.C.

I liked the second article better because it was easier to get an overview of the whole history. It gave more specific information about each year, and I got the impression that only the imporant dates was taken to consideration. The most interesting fact about both articles talk about the same happening, in different years. The first article says morse coding was invented in 1837, but the second article claims it happened in 1835.

Another thing I found interesting is that none of them are updated with the newest technology. I thought part of the point with online-articles was that they could be updated and brought up to speed with what's been happening for the last decade. Even though some of the technology is brand new, the mobile phone and laptops are quite old, and ready to be written into the technological history.

Sources:
McGaughey W 2011, Some dates in the history of communication technologies, viewed August 1 2011, http://worldhistorysite.com/culttech.html.
About.com, The history of communication, viewed August 1 2011, http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_history_of_communication.htm.