University of Baltimore, Fall 2010

Part 1: History of ARPA leading up to ARPANET

http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~acc/docs/arpa–1.html

Wayne T., Lawrence P.

- ARPANET was the first info networking system developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
- Can be considered to the first iteraion of the Internet
- Devloped as a way to share information without the (perceived) threat of interception from USSR
-Original servers were located in UCLA, Univer. of Utah, SRIARC, UCSB
-Original concept was called the Intergalatic Computer Network

Doctor J.C.R. Linklader: http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_licklider.htm

Further Reading:
Arthur Norberg, Judy E. O’Neill, ‘Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon’

‘A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade’

Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, ‘Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet’

M. Mitchell Waldrop, ‘The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal’

Online Research:

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_licklider.htm

-How could ARPANET influenced the growth of the internet?
-Would the Internet have still come about without the standard of ARPANET? If the US had made it to space first, then what?
- Did all advances to the internet come from the military?

In Class: Viewing

• Noughts and Crosses (1952)
• Spacewar, 1962
• Star Trek, 1966
• Ping-pong, 1969
• Pong
• Rise of the Videogame: Ralph Baer
• History of Video Games (1972-2007)

In Class: Reading

• Tennis for Two
• PDP-1
• Spacewar and More Spacewar
• Galaxy Game and Computer Space
• Why are Video Games Important?
• Imagination and the Secret History of Video Games
• Genesis: How the Home Video Game Industry Began
• Nimrod, The First “Gaming” Computer
• History of Nintendo
• History of Unix (Space Travel)
• Star Trek and the game
• Hunt the Wumpus
• ARPANET

Group Work

In pairs, write an annotated bibliography entry for your assigned reading. Follow this format:

Blog Post Title: (Year or span of years under discussion): (Primary Game or System)

Post Content:

Name of article and link

Name of team members (First name, last initial is fine)

Key Points: bulleted list of key points from article

Name of each game/system under discussion and link to another good resource, and playable version / video / emulator if available (NOT wikipedia, if possible)

Name of important people and link to information on that person ( NOT wikipedia, if possible)

Further Reading:

Does your piece connect to something in the assigned readings? Include page number and brief quote

Online research:

Are there other valuable readings available online or through Google books that would be useful for someone researching this topic? Don’t just include everything that comes up on Google: find articles that would be a good starting point if this were your own research topic.

Research questions:

List at least three interesting questions that arise from this article and might lead to interesting paper topics. For help writing research questions, see this article.