Before the Screen: When Photographs Became Data

How still images were turned into numbers: wirephoto news, the fax, halftones and dithering, the first scanned photographs, and the people who coined the word 'pixel'.

Playlist by @pixel_history

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. 1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937) - CharlieDeanArchives — Charlie Dean Archives
2. The Birth of Photography: Drawing With Light (and silver iodide) — Technology Connections
3. When a Bit Became a Pixel: The History of Computer Graphics — Video Vimeo
4. Alvy Ray Smith | A Biography of the Pixel | Talks at Google — Talks at Google
5. History of the Pixel as Fast As Possible — Techquickie
6. Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics, Part One — Ahoy
7. Digital Images - Computerphile — Computerphile
8. Ordered Dithering - Computerphile — Computerphile
9. A Long And Incomplete History of Scanners — Cathode Ray Dude - CRD
10. Origin of Digital Image Processing | History, Milestones & First Applications — EC Academy