Information Age / History Of Computers

 The intent is for this to be a website where you can find information on how to use
a computer, and how to use the internet to find information that will guide you
to make the correct and most beneficial choice when looking for answers and information.
With the continued growth of the internet we all are sure to continue to see
new websites offering new ways of sharing information using the internet.

“From 2009 onward, the Internet is expected to grow significantly in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia  (BRICI countries). These countries have large populations
and moderate to high economic growth, but still low Internet penetration rates.
In 2009, the BRICI countries represented about 45 percent of the world’s
population and had approximately 610 million Internet users, but by 2015,
Internet users in BRICI countries will double to 1.2 billion, and will triple
in Indonesia.”

Newspapers, books and other print publishing are adapting to Web site
technology, or are reshaped into blogging  and web  feeds. The Internet has enabled or accelerated new forms of human  interactions through instant messaging, Internet
forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail
outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply  chains across entire industries.

Some examples of this are, the new social networks:

1. Twitter
2. Face book
3. YouTube

By the way, ask yourself how many computers have information about you. Look at
the list below.

1. Internal Revenue
2. Social Security
3. Department Of Motor Vehicles
4. Transportation, Air & Rail
5. Private Industry
6. Credit Bureau
7. School Hospital
8. Public Library
9. Credit Card Company

These are just some of the entities that use the internet to exchange information
about us, our habits, what we purchase, our likes and dislikes or who we are
and where we live. So yes, you need to know how to use the internet. Even if it
were no more than learning how to remove information, you would like to keep
private.

This  site takes into consideration not everyone has a computer or access to the
internet. This site will show you how to locate computers with internet access in
your community. Knowing how and where to look on the internet for information will
help you choose how or who protects your INFORMATION!  We all know someone who needs access to
information.  Reach out to threw this  websites “Blog” and get that information. You will be doing that person a favor  and reinforcing the reasoning why we all need to have a computer and access to
the internet.

The Computer History Collection includes artifacts relating to the production, collection, modification, manipulation, and use of information in modern American society.  The collection comprises artifacts employed in the processing of information as opposed to its simple communication.  By processing, we mean operations of objects that involve the following functions:

• Encoding, or getting data into a machine in coded form
• Storage, or preserving the data or information within the device
• Modification, or changing the data within the device.
• Decoding, or getting data out of the device into symbols that humans can understand.

Data processing objects in the computer collections are all electronic, as earlier processing equipment is in the mathematics collections or other collections in the museum.  Because information technology is ubiquitous, other units of the museum also rightly collect artifacts of information technology related to specific processing tasks (e.g. robotic machine tools, typewriters, printing presses, and photographic equipment).

Approximate numbers of objects in the collection: