Join us on a journey into the past: How familiar are you with telephony at ETH Zurich and with old analogue telephones, and what do you personally associate with these devices? Tell us your story!
Series IT Find 3/2023: Do you know your way around?
Come with us as we travel back in time: How familiar are you with old analog telephones and what do you personally associate with these devices? Tell us your story!
The IT services as they exist today have accompanied ETH Zurich for almost a fifth of its lifetime. A lot has changed during this time. The IT Services have grown considerably and been given many new tasks. We are keeping a record of the history of ETH and its IT Services, for us and future interested people to browse through and dive into.
“Email is useless” – Obstacles facing the pioneers at ETH
The ETH has been one of the top ten technical universities for many years and is constantly hitting the headlines with its new innovations. And yet it was only just under 30 years ago that ETH had no internet or email. In one of our last posts, we created a timeline to illustrate the arrival of the internet at our university. It takes pioneers to make these kinds of developments happen. One such pioneer was Walter Gander, who shared his experiences back in the day of the emails and websites with us for this article.
IT Training Lab – “IT vocational training at ETH” – pimped up, Episode 1
ETH is an important pillar in IT education in Switzerland. Every year, about seven out of 170 trainees enter a career in modern technology. Training at ETH is highly regarded and its graduates are excellently educated. But to whom or what is ETH’s success due?
The Internet first came to Switzerland around 30 years ago. It was called SWITCHlan, it linked the Swiss universities to one another and was intended exclusively for the research world. SWITCH therefore became the first Internet service provider in Switzerland. How did this development come about and to what extent has the Internet changed since then?