|
The Big Five of Commercial Media After a number of mergers and acquisitions five powerful media conglomerates lead the world's content production and distribution. They operate on an international basis with subsidiaries all around the globe and engage in every imaginable kind of media industry. Table: The World's Leading Media Companies
(* Revenues of Time Warner only (merger with AOL took place in January 2000) | |||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||
|
atbash Atbash is regarded as the simplest way of encryption. It is nothing else than a reverse-alphabet. a=z, b= y, c=x and so on. Many different nations used it in the early times of writing. for further explanations see: | |||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||
|
Aeneas Tacticus Supposedly his real name was Aeneas of Stymphalus. He was a Greek military scientist and cryptographer. He invented an optical system for communication similar to a telegraph: the | |||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||