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The Beginning

 

(14,000,000,000 years ago)

 

Many people debate how the world began.  Some say it was over a period of billions of years, as life patiently and cautiously grew over this planet, filling it with diversity, and perfecting the structure of existence.  Others say it was over a period of seven days, where everything from geese, fish, helicopters, jam, Santa Claus, zucchini, pigs and more was created, which can only be described as...

 

MAGIC!

 

The first group of people are described as scientists, while the second group are called, Ostriches, because they’re known for having their head in dark holes, possibly up their @$$.

 

Look, all kidding aside, some people believe that the Earth was created in seven days, but the truth is that there are literally MILLIONS of pieces of evidence in multiple fields (radio telescopes, cosmic background radiation, archeological findings, and mathematic extrapolations) that show the world and the universe were formed over billions of years.  Now, does this mean there is no God? 

 

It does not prove anything about God.  All it proves is that one book has a few typos.  Moving on.

 

The universe began as a single particle of matter, only one billionth, of a billionth, of a billionth, of a billionth, of a billionth, of a meter.  What happened at the very beginning?  We’re not entirely sure.  Perhaps it was the hand of God, perhaps it was a random occurrence of one atomic electron colliding into another.  I like to think it was space monkeys in an alternative dimension who detonated a nuclear bomb so big it collapsed their own universe, opened a black hole, and created ours, but I digress.

 

Basically, within the first few seconds of the big bang, the particle of matter expands (which ironically was not an explosion), and unifies all forces of energy.  Energy was released, and the teeny tiny universe blew up into the size of a melon.  To give that scale, it would be like your head, suddenly growing from what it is now, to the size of the sun, within a fraction of a second.

 

At this point, the universe is still small, and is a lot of random matter; pretty foggy, but still the size of a melon.  The universe would basically look like a smoke ring; but it would give off so much heat, it could melt you into a puddle of goo.

 

Then, for the first three seconds of the universe’s creation, the universe continues to expand and cools, allowing quarks to be created.

  

 

No!  Quarks are particles that are smaller than atoms.  Smaller than electrons even. 

 

That all happened in the first 3 seconds of the universe.  Then we have the next 380,000 years. 

 

The universe grew, and it took 380,000 years for the universe to cool, and finally create basic atoms (basically it took 380,000 years for the quarks to join together and form electrons, and some basic, simple Hydrogen atoms). 

 

Gravity took over, and brought various elements together much like a social butterfly at a bad family reunion.  Matter moved around, some joining here, some joining there, until eventually enough Hydrogen and Helium atoms joined together, formed other atoms, and created a supernova, which creates a star, including our sun.

 

 

 

             

Our Sun

 

Our sun, was formed around 4.5 billion (that’s 4,500,000,000) years ago.  It is widely considered to have begun because of the explosion of a big ball of gas (insert your own joke here).  At first, the planets formed, and cooled. 

 

Then, similar to the formation of the universe, random particles formed during the cooling process, and gasses turned into complex atoms, and then complex molecules, including water.

 

You see, water wasn’t formed overnight.  It took a long time for our oceans to form.  Then, complex molecules became proteins, and the proteins developed into DNA, and then single-cell creatures called Amoebas.

 

Finally, the Amoebas joined to create bigger creatures, and roughly 230 million years ago (that’s 4.27 billion years after the creation of the Earth), dinosaurs began to roam the Earth.

 

 

Myths about dinosaurs:

 

Contrary to popular belief, humans and dinosaurs never existed at the same time (that’s right, The Flintstones lied to you).

 

The first dinosaurs were large, and rugged creatures similar to Rhinoceroses.  It took millions of years for dinosaurs to evolve into the efficient killing machines like the T-Rex, and the Velociraptor.

 

Not all dinosaurs were lizards.  Many had feathers, and some swam.

 

For more information on dinosaur myths, click here.

 

Anyway, long story short, the dinosaurs died out.  Whether it was an asteroid, gradual evolution, a change in local conditions, or perhaps space monkeys, they were wiped out 65 million (that’s 65,000,000) years ago.

 

This allowed smaller mammals to eventually evolve into larger primates (including cavemen), roughly 6 million (6,000,000) years ago.

 

 

These creatures eventually evolved into homo-sapiens (that’s the scientific term for humans) around 200,000 years ago (finally, no more parentheses), and existed as basic hunter-gatherers until the beginning of the stone age.

 

 

 

Stone Age

 

(? - 4,300 BC)

 

This is not to be confused with the Stoned Age, which is considered either the era between 1963 to 1969, or the era between 1 am and 3 am in most college dorm rooms.

 

Technically, the stone age lasted over a million years, and is divided into three parts, but the term is usually used to describe when man first formed tools, basic shelters, and the beginnings of civilization spread to the four hot spots of the world.

 

The period between the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago to around 6,000 years ago, has seen the most activity.  This is because that era had rising sea levels, and there was a need to adapt to a changing environment and find new food sources.

 

Some of the Stone Age’s milestones include:

 

Milestone

Year

Importance

The first basic shelter consisting of rocks and branches is discovered.

2,000,000 BC

This is widely considered the first effort by man to take self-deterministic actions to protect himself.  A similar structure was later found in 500,000 BC in France.  This is believed to be the first Hilton hotel shelter, and then followed by the first Hilton shelter sex tape.

The first structure was created made out of stones, clay blocks, and timber, in Czechoslovakia.

23,000 BC

This was basically the first house, which was followed by the first mortgage payment.

An animal hide tent made with bones was created in France.

15,000 BC

This just shows the French were behind... again.

The first cave paintings in Spain were done.

14,000 BC

 

Ironically, the paintings look a lot like a giant red bull.

 

 

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Not a human achievement, but this time is when the last ice age ended.

10,000 to 6,000 BC

This caused rising sea levels, and a need for humans to migrate and adapt.  One could call it a mental evolutionary marker, where the cavemen who couldn’t adapt died off, and the humans who had the intellect to form tools, lived on.

 

Agriculture (farming) and the first signs of civilization appear in the fertile crescent in the middle east (where Iraq is), and quickly spread to the Indus Valley, the Mediterranean, and China.

 

7,000 BC

The development of farming aloud humans to settle down, rather than being a constantly migratory people.  With this basic need for food and stability satisfied, they could develop homes and technologies in a safe environment. 

Sea levels have been rising, and - according to the disputed "Black Sea Deluge Theory" - sea water suddenly begins pouring into the Black Sea basin, flooding vast amounts of inhabited land and sending people on new migrations with stories about a great flood.

5,600 BC

This is one of the theory’s behind the story of Noah’s Ark.  This is possible because many civilizations of the time also have flood mythologies.

 

People in China are planting seeds.

 

5,500 BC

 

Agriculture has spread from Greece into central Europe. Farming reappears in Africa south of the Sahara in the Niger Basin in the West. The Sahara at this time is grass and woodland with an abundance of rainfall, rivers, lakes, fish and aquatic life. People there are growing crops and raising sheep, goats and cattle.

4,500 BC

 

 

Copper Age

 

4,300 BC – 1,000 BC

 

It was during this time that humans first learned metal-working (or metallurgy) and the European Battle Axe culture arose (which sounds like a bad 80’s metal band), and trade began to flourish between the four hot spots of civilization.

 

This is also the period when Ötzi the Iceman (found in the Ötztaler Alps) died and was frozen in the mountains, and whose remains have been dated to about 3300 BC.

 

 

We refer to it as the Battleaxe culture because as you’ll come to learn, where there’s trade, war will follow.  Just compare maps of where major wars have broken out, and where major trading centers and routes have been.

 

Now why could this be?

 

 

 

 

Bronze Age

 

3,500 BC – 1,100 BC

 

This is when humans start to discover the ability, and importance of metalworking, specifically, how to take base elements of ore (rock), and extract copper and tin.  

              

This allowed for stronger weapons, swords, lamps, and decorative pieces.  Unfortunately, as hard as they tried, they could not use the art of smelting to create the first X-box.  That would come much later.

 

While many areas of the world are still relegated to small tribes, the four hot spots of civilization are forming together, either through alliances, marriage, or just plain old invasions.

 

These hot spots of civilization include:

  • The formation of the First Dynasty of Egypt in 3100 BC, and a couple of centuries later, built the great pyramid of Giza
  • Kot Diji of the Indus Valley Civilizations begins (the first empire in India) 2800 BC
  • Yu the Great established the Xia Dynasty in China around 2070 BC
  • The ancient civilizations of Jiroft, Sumeria, Assyria, Akkadia, and others were developed around 1900 BC between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which is currently modern Day Iraq.

                                            

Also during this time, the Greek city-states rose, and it’s widely considered that the Trojan War, occurred around 1200 BC.  However, we see much more activity in the four regions listed above.

 

 

 

Iron Age

 

1,100 BC – 44 BC

 

It is said that the iron age first began in India, through the advance of smelting iron (which means to melt raw metal at specific temperatures, and separate the raw ore into different components).

 

Smelting allowed for stronger weapons to be created.  It traveled westward, and appeared in central European nations by 700 BC, and in northern Europe by 500 BC.

 

Define this period, many civilizations clashed, and wars raged.  Some of these included:

·         The Zhou and Warring States period occurred in China, circa 350 BC, near the city of Gaocheng (藁城) in Shijiazhuang (now Hebei province), where an iron-bladed bronze tomahawk (铁刃青铜钺).

·         In Africa, the widespread use of iron revolutionized the Bantu-speaking farming communities who adopted it, driving out and absorbing the hunter-gatherer societies they encountered as they expanded to farm wider areas of savannah.

·         In Greece, the Dorians are credited for discovering iron smelting.  The Dorians were the most rigid and exclusive cast systems in Greece.

·         The state of Rome was officially formed in 500 BC.

 

 

 

Axial Age

 

800 BC – 200 BC

 

German philosopher Karl Jaspers coined the term the Axial Age (Achsenzeit in the German language original) to describe the period from 800 BC to 200 BC, during which, according to Jaspers, similarly revolutionary thinking appeared in China, India, and Europe.

 

The main reason these schools of thought were able to travel so far and be so successful, was because of the improvements in technology brought on by the iron age.  As you’ll note, the Axial Age took up nearly half of the Iron Age, and was able to be so prominent because the smelting of iron allowed certain cultures to dominate others through the export and trade of important goods, and through wars.

 

Some of these great thinkers included:

Platonism, which would later become a major influence on the Western world through both Christian and secular thought throughout the middle ages and into the renaissance.

 

His thoughts spread through his student Plato, Plato’s student Aristotle, and Aristotle’s student, Alexander the great, who later went on to conquer a massive empire.

 

Buddhism, another of the world's most influential philosophies, was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, or the Buddha, who lived during this period.

 

Since Siddhartha was an Indian prince, it was easy for his ideas to spread outward from India with the tradesmen who would sell the new iron products all over the known world.

 

In China, Confucianism arose during this era, where it remains a profound influence on social and religious life.

 

While all of these philosophers were important, they often force historians to look over the important contributions of St. Malicious the third.

 

 

Era of the Roman State

 

44 BC – September 4, 476 AD

 

Although the official state of Rome was formed around 500 BC, the Era of the Roman State defines the time when Rome acted as the super-power of Europe and Northern-Africa (if not the world) and made several cultural and technological advances that we still utilize today.  Many historians try to define this era as the Post-Roman Iron Age, but most of those sniff glue. 

 

Noted historian, Francesco Petrarca, said, “What else, then, is all history, but the praise of Rome?”

 

44 BC is the year when Julius Caesar (yes, THE Julius Caesar) was appointed perpetual dictator.  September 4th, 476 AD is the day the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by the German tribes, sent into exile, and then “disappears.”  Romulus Augustus was only 15 years old, and reigned as emperor for only 10 months.

 

Rome was known for its great technological achievements.  The irony of this is that the Romans stole most of their technologies from the Greeks, and other civilizations they conquered.  You see today, we have copyright and trademark laws that protect intellectual property, so people can actually make money on their ideas.  According to Roman law, once you invented things, there was no way to protect someone from mass-producing your work, and take all the money for themselves. 

 

Some of the important technological developments of the time included:

Technology

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Importance

The Roman Abacus

This early version of the calculator allowed Romans to speed up arithmetic, and compute complex equations.

The Arch

As odd as it may seem, the arch was actually a major technological concept, because it allowed massive support, and easy passage, while utilizing minimal materials, and aesthetic beauty.  The arch later became used in almost all Roman architecture.

Aqueducts

These aqueducts were amongst the greatest engineering feats of the ancient world, and set a standard not equaled for over a thousand years after the fall of Rome. Many cities still maintain and use the ancient aqueducts for their water supply even today.  After all, how else would people go to the bathroom without aqueducts.

Concrete Roads

Before Rome, no one ever thought of building roads out of anything but dirt.  These new roads allowed the Empire’s army to be deployed easier, and also increased trade.

 

This then gave way to the Roman flying car.

 

Dark Age

 

476 AD - 1000 AD

 

The Dark Ages is referred to as such because after the fall of the Roman empire, there was a complete breakdown in the written language in the Roman territories and surrounding ares.  Unfortunately, historians need multiple written records to gauge proper historical events, otherwise anyone could write a single book saying all kinds of fantastical events happened, and millions of people would believe it… and that’s just silly.

 

Some historians, such as Edward Gibbons, defined this period as a superstitious, dark time, where priests of all religions roamed through Europe, spreading fear and malice.

 

It was during this time that if the legendary King Arthur existed, he would have reigned during the early part of the Dark Age.

 

Ironically, many of the Arab Kingdoms, such as the Byzantine Empire, were having a Golden Age, where Arab sheiks, Jewish rabbis, and scholars, worked together to achieve great accomplishments in math, science, and the arts.

In fact, the Arabic-Hindu math system is the one that replaced Roman numerals, and the system we currently use today.

 

Middle Ages

 

1000 AD – 1400 AD

 

Also known as the Medieval Age (Ha! Middle; Medieval, it’s a pun!), and also known as the second half of the dark ages, this was known as a time of strong-handed leaders, and often violent acts.  These categories are not exclusive to Europe though.

Some early historians have described non-European countries as "medieval" when those countries show characteristics of "feudal" organization. The pre-Westernisation period in the history of Japan, and the pre-colonial period in developed parts of sub-Saharan Africa, are also sometimes termed "mediaeval." 

 

One of the unique traits of the Middle Ages, is that it began at 1000 AD, a time of great pessimism, because many Christians believed the world would end and the rapture would begin at the year 1000.  In 999, Wars, bands of raiders, poverty, and chaos ransacked Europe.  At New Year’s Eve 999, Pope Sylvester II attended midnight mass, and as most of Rome awaited the end of the world, the twelfth bell tolled, and nothing happened.

 

The most prominent influence at the time was the Catholic Church, which used it’s influence on the peasants to domineer over the country’s rulers with the threat of excommunication.  Kings ruled many separate kingdoms, and beneath them were feudal lords with hereditary entitlements to the crown.  Castles both big and small dotted the landscape of Europe.

 

One of the important sub-sections of the Medieval Times (besides the jousting competition) was a period known as the Viking Age.

The Viking Age lasted from 793 AD to 1100 AD, a period when the Scandinavian expansion was so dramatic, and so vicious that it started all of Europe.  The Vikings burned down monasteries, invaded Northern England, and gave us the technology of longships. 

 

Artwork also greatly advanced during this period:

 

Technology like windmills, iron horse shoes, 24 hour clocks, and other technologies were invented by monks (yes, monks).

 

Banks were formed to foster international trade, craftsmen and inventors banded together to form guilds (helping to protect intellectual property violations that occurred constantly under Roman rule), and some towns even declared independence from their local feudal lords.

 

Unfortunately, the middle ages were cut short, after the Middle Ages-Life Crisis ended, and his trophy girlfriend left him for a young drummer in a rock band.

 

 

The Renaissance (The Age of Rebirth)

 

1400 AD – 1600 AD

 

The Renaissance is a French word for Rebirth and is widely used to describe the time when European explorers would sail off to parts of the world unknown.  It largely coincides with an influx of new ideas.

 

There were also powerful families at the time, such as the Medici’s, who could extend power across Europe.  Their family produced three popes, and infiltrated members into the royal families across Europe. 

 

This is a time when brilliant “Renaissance Men” such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Rafael redefined culture itself.  They were called Renaissance Men because they aspired to be excellent in as many fields as possible.  They all had shortcomings, but they tried to be the best they possibly could be.

 

 

This is the period when western civilization really caught up with where the Romans left off.  One of the important traits of this period is that scholars who believed in the Humanist style of history, began revisiting Roman documents, and learning from past successes, and mistakes.

 

Greek and Arab works were also incorporated into the Renaissance Zeitgeist.

 

It was also during this time period that (for better or for worse) Europe started to explore outward:

·         In 1492, Christopher Columbus first discovered the American continents.

·         In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan sought out to be the first ship to circle the globe, even though he would not survive, and the voyage would take over a year to complete. (For this, they named the Straights of Magellan after him).

·         Portugal opened more trade routes to distant lands because of a shortage of bullion in the land.  Many other nations and families would follow, including the Medicis, who opened routes to India and China.

·         Colonialism began, and sovereign nations and areas like Africa, China, and the Americas were divided into colonies by the European powers.

·         Unfortunately, as the European powers spread, slavery became an increasing form of profit.  Even though indentured servitude had existed as a form of slavery in various European and African kingdoms for centuries, the mass-production of kidnapping and slavery took off with Portugal’s colonization of Africa in 1526.  Many other European nations were encouraged to do so, both to keep up with the Capitalist benefit of slavery, and because of religious elements that preached God saw Africans as an inferior people because of the color of their skin, and because they did not know of Christianity.

 


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Age of Reason

 

1600 AD – 1700 AD

 

Widely influenced by a resurgence in Socratic thought, it is this era that planted the seeds for the Age of Enlightenment, and the revolutionary philosophies that followed.

 

One of the cornerstones of this resurgence was the work of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher and physicist who established critical philosophy on a systematic basis, proposed a material theory for the origin of the solar system.  Kant believed:

 

“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”

 

Isaac Newton also discovered the law of gravity, showing that what goes up, must come down.  Many people have tried to disprove this theory over the years including the Wright Brothers, Neil Armstrong, Day Traders, and the inventors of Viagra.

 

 

Age of Enlightenment

 

1700 AD – 1804 AD

 

Usually used as a term to define 18th century philosophy, many attribute its end to the Napoleonic Wars which ravaged Europe.

 

The Age of Enlightenment is comprised of literally hundreds of philosophers: Baruch Spinoza (a Dutch philosopher who is considered to have laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment); Balthasar Bekker (in his book De Philosophia Cartesiana, Bekker argued that theology and philosophy each had their separate terrain and that Nature can no more be explained from Scripture than can theological truth be deduced from Nature); Thomas Abbt (a German who promoted what would later be called Nationalism in Vom Tode für's Vaterland; On dying for one's nation); Edmund Burke (an Irishman who is best known for pragmatism, considered important to both liberal and conservative thinking; Benjamin Franklin (the American statesman, scientist, political philosopher, pragmatic deist, and author); Thomas Jefferson (an American statesman, political philosopher, educator, and deist); Voltaire (a writer for the French Enlightenment, essayist, deist, and philosopher); Adam Smith (a Scottish economist and philosopher who wrote The Wealth of Nations).

 

Because of the seeds planted during the Age of Reason, great political changes occurred around the world.  Democratic reforms spread across Europe, especially in Poland, and Revolutions occurred in America and France.

 

 

 

Industrial Age

 

1760 AD – 1946 AD

 

Overlapping with the Age of Enlightenment, it represents a time when changing technologies were affecting everyday life.  Old jobs were made obsolete, and new jobs were created, increasing a need in the general public for a good education.

 

The Industrial Age is split into two industrial revolutions: the first in the 1760’s as a result of the end of Feudalism; and the second in the 1830’s.  The Industrial Age was a time when factories filled the land, and the economy was mainly dependent on the building of machines.

 

Three of the areas that benefitted the most from the Industrial Age were Textiles, Steam Power, and Iron Founding (which is a way of improving on the iron smelting that was conceived in the iron age).

 

Manufacturing improved greatly during this period, and almost any object could be mass produced. 

 

Canals were built to increase trade and productivity (such as the Panama Canal), and railways blew up across continents as the new veins of progress.  Electricity became widely utilized in all homes, and urbanization began on a massive scale, causing some cities to overpopulate (and that’s the real reason why you can’t get a decent parking spot in New York City).

 

After it’s formation in 1870, officials from the new government of Japan toured industrial sites in Europe and America to ensure that they would not fall behind in the industrial wave.

 

These advances were not without their setbacks.  Groups of poorly educated individuals called Luddites grouped together and sabotaged factories, supply-lines, and any form of technology that either threatened their ability to gain employment, or they didn’t understand.  Child labor also was a menace as millions of orphans and poor children were forced to work in dangerous conditions.

 

Also, it was the pollution of the Industrial Age that created Global Warming… wait, sorry, I’m being told that according to the State of Kansas we are not allowed to admit that Global Warming exists.  Instead, we can only refer to it as, “Permanent Summer.”

 

 

                            

 

Information Age

 

1946 AD – 2001 AD

 

The Information Age began in 1946 with the invention of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) the first general purpose computer, invented at The University of Pennsylvania.  The name Information Age alludes to the global economy's shift in focus away from the production of physical goods (as exemplified by the industrial age) and toward the manipulation of information.

 

With the urbanization that occurred in the Industrial Age, and the Baby Boomer Generation that began after World War 2, it was an easy transition for many management companies to be created in cities, while many of their employees would commute from the suburbs.  This commute (which would often take an hour or more) would be done via cars and trains, but would also lead to higher pollution, and help fuel… “Permanent Summer.”

 

Some of the technologies that were invented during this time were:

 

Technology

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Importance

ENIAC general purpose electronic digital computer 

Invented in 1946, it was the first general purpose computer, designed for more than just code-breaking, and porn.

Earliest form of the Internet

The earliest form of the internet was created in 1969 by a team led by Leonard Kleinrock (they were a lot younger than in this picture, but they were the same guys).  It was supported by then Congressman, Al Gore, and later made available for mass appeal by the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. 

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Invented in the late 1970’s, this innovation was furthered by individuals like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Email

Invented in 1971, and surprisingly, the first e-mail did not read, “If you do not forward this e-mail to 5 friends, you will suffer incredible bad luck.”

World Wide Web

Invented between 1990–1991.

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Became mainstream in the 1990's

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The first brick phone was invented in 1984 (largely based off the Star Trek communicator), but mainstreamed and miniaturized thru the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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And we all know what webcams brought us.

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Brought about in the early 2000’s.

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Brought about in the early 2000’s.

Online Gaming Communities

Now all kinds of people could stay in and play World of War Craft on a Saturday night.

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Mainstreamed mid-2000’s, the general public now had a whole new way of getting lost.

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Also known as Eureka 147, is a digital technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format.

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Mainstreamed early 2000’s thanks to Steve Jobs’ Ipod.

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1 word; Tivo.

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NBC was the first network to go all HD in accordance with the government’s Feb. 17th, 2009 deadline. 

 

 

Space Age

 

1957 AD – 1972 AD

 

The Space Age began with the development of several technologies that culminated on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. This was the world's first artificial satellite, orbiting the Earth in 98 minutes and 6 seconds.  The launch of Sputnik 1 ushered a new era of political, scientific and technological achievements that became known as the Space Age.

 

The Space Age was characterized by rapid development of new technology in a close race mainly between the USA and the Soviet Union. Rapid advances were made in rocketry, materials science, computers, and many other areas. Much of the technology originally developed for space applications has been spun off and found other uses.

 

The Space Age reached its peak with the Apollo program which captured the imagination of much of the world's population. The landing of Apollo 11 on the moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, is an event watched by over 500 million people around the world and is widely recognized as one of the defining moments of the 20th century.  The last Apollo space mission was in 1972, and since then, public attention has largely moved to other areas.

 

But, many hope that one day, man will return to the stars...

 

In the early 21st century, the Ansari X Prize competition was set up to help jump start private spaceflight which was won by Space Ship One in 2004, becoming the first spaceship not funded by a government agency.

 

 

Digital Age

 

What is the Digital Age?  It’s right now.  You’re living in the digital age.  

 

The digital age is an evolution of the information age, where in addition to goods and services, our economy, culture, and way of life is dependent upon digital technologies.

 

Cell phones, DVD’s, the internet, and more all make up the digital age because they are not concrete per say, but literally, they are bits of electricity traveling at the speed of light.

 

We’ve come a long way from the beginning of the universe to the present day, but it goes to show you that history isn’t just a random assortment of dates and figures.  It’s a singular narrative story reaching back millions of years, with innovations and achievements colliding into one another, each one affecting the next one, right on down to the way we live our lives today.

 

So now the question is, what will be the next era, and how will you bring it about?

 

 

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