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The Information Age
The information age, commonly known as the ‘Digital Age’ or the ‘Computer Age’ this is the idea that has a concept to be related to a ‘Digital Revolution’ otherwise known as an ‘Era’. As the era’s have changed so has the information, what started off to be a creation for calculating numbers faster than that ability of a human advanced at a phenomenal rate to now being in most peoples house holds allowing them to do their weekly shop online!
What does a computer even do? It’s a piece of technology that calculates switches to either be on or off at a pace so fast using the binary code to aid/guide it through. The information age properly took of in the late 1970s when personal computer systems were accessible and by the early 1990s the internet took off too, allowing communications across the globe progressing to networks to secure a technological lifestyle with the perks of educational lifestyle too. As technology is increasing it is never contemporary, this meaning that you are always learning within this technology ‘new becomes old’ pretty fast.
What is the difference between offices from the 1980s to present?
An office 30years ago (in the 1980s) would still be very slow and substantial, but for people on those times would think that this would be quite a fast system, in the 1980s operating systems like 86 DOS were very popular within these times, and printers weren’t around at this time, but type writers were popular and up coming. By the 1990s a typical office had been upgraded slightly, printers were now in action and typewriters were on their way out. Operating systems like 86 DOS were not really used operating systems like Windows 3.0 and Linux had entered the scene making a faster way to communicate with the computer, mouse’s were also making a name for themselves creating new wacky designs for them, at the end of the 1990s, Windows 98 was brought into the scene to, one of the many operating systems still used today. At the present time we now have made a vast improvement, with operating systems like Windows 7 and MAC Lion, making most things user friendly and easy to complete allowing multiple windows to be open at any given time.
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| Windows 7 print screen taken from Google Images |
In the last 30years offices have changed so rapidly, an office back at the beginning would be tiny with a few computers and masses of filing cabinets to fie information. A typical office now would have multiple computers alongside many peripherals, and filing cabinets replaced with excel smart database systems.
