Documenting History via Information Technology
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Nov-30-2009
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SELDOM do we get to meet someone making a living out of being a historian. People like him are considered among the brightest, having been born with a sharp memory where they store details of what has transpired. With the use of pen and paper, they list down details and events as they unfold.
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SELDOM do we get to meet someone making a living out of being a historian. People like him are considered among the brightest, having been born with a sharp memory where they store details of what has transpired. With the use of pen and paper, they list down details and events as they unfold.
Gone are those Days
That was before. Modern day technology has altered what used to be a tedious process of documenting history. In fact, we could all make good historians among ourselves --- thanks to Information Technology.
Through IT, audio recording was made possible, so as capturing actual still shots and footages of moments that people don't get to see everyday.
Information technology has been moving at an incredibly rapid pace and improving greatly to an extent that every innovation introduced can hardly speak of how it actually evolved.
Uploading History in a Click
Today, history is recorded without using pen and paper. It does not even require our presence. Browsing the net, we’ll find articles, photos and videos that we could organize into a virtual library where we could actually store them for future references.
IT has rendered typewriters, hard-bound encyclopedias and conventional cameras obsolete. In lieu of typewriters are computers, replacing encyclopedias are information-rich internet, and taking the place of the conventional manual cameras are digital imaging systems.
Take the still cameras, which were developed in the early 1900s. Photographs were taken through the use of a gadget that looked more of an elevated safety vault, with the knob as the lens. Photographers, peep through its lens, cover his head along with the camera (except for the lens) with a blanket of sorts if only to ensure that the process in which the picture is taken is protected from any light --- then comes a loud boom. By the way, the cameras that time use 9” x 12” film sheets.
From there, we wait for the print-outs which are processed inside a small dimly lit cubicle known as the darkroom. Print-outs are collated to form part of the history that is more on prose narratives, which were either handwritten or typewritten.
Evolution of cameras and typewriters
The cameras evolved so as the typewriters. Modifications after another modification, the cameras of the past are far more behind with what we have today.
Present day imaging system no longer uses films but an internal data storage system plus an extended room for data storage called as and the memory cards. In fact, the difference could very well be spelled in its size, the looks, and operational features, among others.
Today's digital cameras, light weight and handy at that, are user friendly. Anybody who gets to read the user's manual can easily adopt to the gadget, that now offers sleek size, stylish look, preview screens, automatic zooming devices, rechargeable nature of its power source, and the most wonderful of it all --- the digital camera does not require films, as what many of us have been accustomed to.
Insofar as typewriters are concerned, they’re gone. In lieu of the typewriters are computers were we do stuffs like typing. Keeping those typewritten files is also no longer required as computers are equipped with a memory system that allows us to save files for revision and future references. GP
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