THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COMMUNICATIONS' DIGITAL AGE.
This paper reviews the history of the digital age of communications that began with the invention of the stored program computer in 1948 and is today realised by the World Wide Web, super fast broadband and the smart phone. Taking a predominantly UK focus, the paper examines the key technological ad...
| Publicado en: | Industrial Archaeology Review Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 45 - 65 |
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