Espaço de apoio à Unidade Curricular
de História da Comunicação e dos Média (CC-UMinho)
13 de outubro de 2014
20 anos de web browser
O primeiro web browser comercial, o Netscape, foi lançado há precisamente 20 anos (13 de outubro de 1994).
Dominou o mercado até ao aparecimento do Internet Explorer (Microsoft).
O código base do Netscape vive ainda, hoje, através dos esforços da Fundação Mozilla e tem como herdeiro o Firefox.
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Toda a tecnologia é social
Texto interessante publicado na Boston Review sobre as tecnologias e o seu impacto na nossa vida.
Excerto:
"We better understand the role of technologies if we think about how we use them and how that use changes over time. Most such uses are purposeful, benign, and mundane, such as commuting to work, checking in on mom, gossiping, and shopping. Technologies that begin as luxuries often slip into daily use over time, as they become cheaper and more common. The earliest automobile drivers used their expensive new cars for Sunday jaunts. A bit later, farmers used cheaper versions to take produce to market and families to movies. Later, Americans used autos to commute to work. Initially the Internet was a space of experts. Today people use the Internet to see their distant grandchildren, view pornography, or window shop. In all these cases, we use new devices to push the boundaries of the social sphere."
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"We better understand the role of technologies if we think about how we use them and how that use changes over time. Most such uses are purposeful, benign, and mundane, such as commuting to work, checking in on mom, gossiping, and shopping. Technologies that begin as luxuries often slip into daily use over time, as they become cheaper and more common. The earliest automobile drivers used their expensive new cars for Sunday jaunts. A bit later, farmers used cheaper versions to take produce to market and families to movies. Later, Americans used autos to commute to work. Initially the Internet was a space of experts. Today people use the Internet to see their distant grandchildren, view pornography, or window shop. In all these cases, we use new devices to push the boundaries of the social sphere."
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1 de outubro de 2014
Cinco mil filmes gratuitos (e de download legal!)
Cinco mil filmes acabaram de caír no domínio público tornando-se, assim, disponíveis para acesso livre (e sem quaisquer problemas com direitos autorais).
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Momentos-chave da revolução digital
No número de outubro de 2014 a revista norte-americana Vanity Fair apresenta um trabalho com os momentos mais decisivos da revolução digital. Diz-se, a dado passo, no texto: "ust as the Industrial Revolution was driven by combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery, the Digital Revolution has been driven by two great innovations: the personal computer and the Internet."
Texto completo AQUI.
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