H4CKER WORKSHOP

by Disa Johnson

AGENDAHistory of Technology

The Machine AgeThe Information Age

Internet & Career Hacking

HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY● In Greece, as the development of systematic techniques for

making and doing things came into being over time, technology meant a discourse on both applied and fine arts.

● When technology first appeared in 17th century English texts, it was used to mean only a discussion of the applied arts. It gradually came to designating the applied “arts” themselves.

● By the early 20th century, during the Machine Age, the term technology embraced a growing range of means, processes, and ideas in addition to tools and machines.

COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY PROGRESSION

● 2700 BC: Sumerian Abacus

● 150 BC: Analog Computer (Antikythera Mechanism)

● Designed with gears to calculate astronomical positions

● Predicted lunar and solar eclipses

● 1624: Slide Rule Reigned Supreme Until 1974

● Multiplication, Division, Roots, Logarithms, Trigonometry

● Augmented special scales were used for Aviation & Finance

● 1974: Handheld Scientific Calculator

TURING COMPLETENESS IN THE MACHINE AGE● 1834: Babbage’s Analytical Engine

● 1936: Turing Machine

● 1937: Electromechanical Boolean-logic Multiplier

● Digital Computers, Computer Science

● 1948: Intelligent Machinery

● 1949: Manchester Mark 1, Stored-Program Computer

● EDSAC, EDVAC, BINAC Quickly Followed

● 1950: National Physical Laboratory’s Pilot ACE

“ We are trying to build a machine to do all kinds of different things simply by programming rather than by the addition of extra apparatus.

-Alan Turing 1947

DAWN OF THE INFORMATION AGE● The Computer Age, The Digital Age

● Major Manufacturers Include: Rand, Bell, IBM

● Can Machines Think?

● Turing Test: If a computer, on the basis of written replies to questions, could not be distinguished from a human respondent, then it must be “thinking.”

● 1952: Grace Hopper Invents Compiler Program

● 1956: Direct Keyboard Input (Ended Punch Cards)

● 1957-1960: Programming Languages

● FORTRAN, MATH-MATIC, LISP, Hyperlink, Hypertext

THE INFORMATION AGE COMES OF AGE● Information Technology (IT)

● Mass Storage, Random Access Memory

● Microprocessor

● UNIX & Computer Networking

● Internet: TCP/IP, Email, FTP, Telnet

● Personal Computer Revolution

● Commercial Internet & Globalization

● Gopher, World Wide Web, Cats

● PGP Encryption

KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY● Creative Persons

● Graphic Designers

● Website Design

● User Experience (UX)

● Full-on Nerds

● Database Administrators

● System Admins

● DevOps

● Full-Stack Unicorns

● DIY All The Things!

CREATIVE PERSONS DO DESIGN HACKING

SYSTEMADMINISTRATIO

NLet’s go use a command line prompt.

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