CS115 Project

This assignment is due on March 17^th .

Late assignments will not be accepted.

1. Any pictures that you wish to include (including the seal) are to be saved (menu or right mouse button) as files and inserted into the WORD document containing your timeline.

2. Save your WORD document as a Web Page (.htm) using your last name as the first part of the filename. (Do not save as “Single File Web Page” or “Web Page, Filtered”.) For example, Peter Smith’s web file should be called “smith.htm”. When WORD creates a web page file, it puts the pictures in a separate folder with the same name as the file. (In this example, there would be a folder named “smith” with all the pictures included in this web page.)

3. Include a page of hyperlinks indicating the sources for your research as a separate file saved as your lastname_links.htm.

4. Be sure to include both your web page (“yourname.htm”) file, your links file (“yourname_links.htm”) and the folder with the pictures when you submit your assignment. You must submit these files and folders as your assignment on a flash drive. I will collect the flash drives in class and copy the files and folder to my flash drive.

5. Submit a printed copy of your web page and links page.

CS 115 – Standard Project

From the ancient days when Egyptians were writing on papyrus to modern day holographic technologies, societies have found ways to retain more and more information in permanent ways. Your project will be to design a Web Page for students at Caldwell College to inform them of the fascinating history of storage technology.

1. Research this history and create a timeline that shows the development. Your research should result in some interesting technologies and systems.
2. For each technology, list the media, two significant facts about the technology, and the era in which it was used or popular.
3. You can create the timeline using images and words or just words. This is a creative project. Your best research, artistic and communication skills come together to create this timeline.
4. In addition to other milestones in your timeline, include pictures, answers to the specified questions and a brief description of the following in your historical timeline:

1. The Palette of Narmer (the world’s first historical document). When was it produced? What was its purpose?

2. Cuneiform writing. Was cuneiform a language? Who used it and when?

3. Johannes Guttenberg. What book did he publish?

4. Nanotechnology. How is it used to store information?

5. Your web page must contain the Caldwell College Seal in the top left corner of the page. The seal is found on the Publications page in the Caldwell College web site. You can access this page by following the link for Faculty and Staff and the link for Logos under Publications.

Sample

Storage Technologies Timeline

By Mary Voehl

BC
		Palette of Narmer
	Cuneiform Writing
AD
Pre-1800’s		Guttenberg press
Late 1800’s		The earliest method of recording sound was on phonograph cylinders, commonly referred to as records. By the early 1900’s cylinder, records were replaced by disc records. These platters were the ancestors of hard disk technology.
1900’s		Data was mostly stored on punched cards and punched paper tape. The punched cards and tapes used punched holes to store information. The combination of punches in a column was used to represent characters.
late 1940s		The first magnetic memory was introduced in the form of a grid of magnetic cores. Each core stored one "bit" of data - the smallest unit of data storage. This memory was non-volatile, reliable, and fast, but, unfortunately, the data was erased every time it was read, requiring an immediate rewrite.