olden and modern technology used in internet. class 8
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Answer Technology has changed almost everything about the way we live, from how we travel and navigate to the ways we share information and take photos.
Modern technologies, smart phones and the internet mean tasks that once took days, weeks or months now happen instantly, at the press of a button or swipe of a screen.
Let’s take a look at some examples of then and now:
Phone booth on Collins St, Melbourne in 1979.
Phone booth on Collins St, Melbourne in 1979.
A dial up phone.
A dial up phone.
TELEPHONES
Phones have changed a lot since they popped up in Australian homes in the late 1950s.
Phones were originally screwed onto walls and attached with wires and cords. They used a circular dial with numbers that you had to turn to phone someone’s number. Push buttons came in later.
People without a home phone or anyone out on the street were able to use a public or shared payphone in a phone box.
Mobile phones first became popular in the 1990s.
1980s mobile phone.
1980s mobile phone.
Since then smartphones have combined phone capability with instant messaging, internet access, cameras and navigation.
IMAGES
Not so long ago snapping a picture meant loading film into the back of bulky camera, taking a photo, finishing a roll of film (24 or 36 images) and then taking it to a camera store or pharmacy to be developed.
Some old-fashioned cameras.
Some old-fashioned cameras.
A photographic darkroom.
A photographic darkroom.
The only instant images were from polaroid cameras. Special film was stored within the body of the camera until a photo was taken and the image shot out and eventually revealed itself.
The arrival of digital cameras — and more recently, smartphones — mean endless images can be taken and stored at minimal cost.