WIU BC323 Research Paper & BC102 Research Project
The Assignment: Research a topic and give an in-class summary of your findings.
My Take: I had to write a research paper for BC323, so I combined the assignments and focused my research on the pending FCC broadband regulations. The video link below was my research summary for BC102.
[edit: My video was pulled from YouTube due to a copyright claim by FOX. The clip in question was the musical number 'The Fellas at the Freakin' FCC' from Family Guy.]
Full Video Text:
Too busy getting slizzard to keep up with the last hundred years of computer history? Here’s what you missed.
2400 BC: The Chinese invent the abacus and… well, that’s a little far back.
1870: The US Census takes 7 years to tabulate. A census employee invents a way to store information on a punch card so that it could be read back later. He founds a company to make the product.
He called it I-B-M.
1892: William S. Burroughs invents a fancy printable desk calculator. If that name sounds familiar… It’s because he’s the grandfather of this guy.
1943: The geniuses at Bletchely Park in London are charged with breaking the German Enigma cipher so the Allies can intercept Nazi messages during the war. The build the Colussus…A machine so big, even this guy’s impressed.
1958: The integrated circuit is invented. So now we can use these…Instead of these.
1965: Moore’s Law says we gotta go really fast now…
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