Digital resources tagged with ‘innovation’

Australia dials up

Trevor Barr compares the complex and slow access to the Internet in the 1960s to today's high speed broadband service.

Beginnings of the Internet

Trevor Barr provides a brief history of the inception and development of the Internet.

Blogging

Blogging can be used as a means of pursuing a cause.

Broadcasts in cyberspace

Trevor Barr contrasts the privileged access to public television broadcasts with the free information exchange on the Internet. Stephen Mayne celebrates the value of ABC Online as a national resource and describes how activists have used the Internet to successfully broadcast their alternative views.

Captain Cook - Cook's Chronometer

On James Cook’s second voyage of discovery he takes part in a grand scientific experiment to test a chronometer that the Admiralty hopes will allow navigators to measure lines of longitude.

End of Cinema Newsreel

The ultimate decline of cinema newsreels occurred with the coming of colour television.

Online Communities

ALTOS - an online chat community based in Germany - provided a 'world without borders' for its members.

The CSIRAC Computer

The story of the CSIRAC computer. Designed and constructed by the CSIRO, it was the first fully automatic electronic digital computer.

The Digital Divide

Trevor Barr reminds us that more than half of the world's population does not have access to the Internet. Stephen Mayne shares his belief that the digital divide will prevent Internet broadcasts from reaching entire populations in the way that television or radio broadcasts can.

Web & Pod Casting

Scott Goodings describes the experience of watching TV via webcasts over the internet.

World Internet Project

Trevor Barr links the rise in Internet users with the change in lifestyle practices of television audiences.

World Wide Web

Websites are the new vehicles for advertising.