Brief History of the Internet

Bill Gates Mugshot, Mexico 1977

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• Charles Babbage invented in the 19th Century the "Difference engine" and sketched out the structure of a modern computer.

• Ada Byron first conceived of a machine which would be able to compose and play music, produce graphics and be of everyday use. She also conceived the first computer program.

• Alan Turing- Enigma machine. devised first working computer. Philosophical paper- Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

• Computers were first commercially produced by IBM in the 1950s.

• Gordon Moore developed "Moore s Law" in 1965 and co-founded Intel Corporation in 1968

• Xerox PARC – early 70’s, developed concepts such as the mouse, the graphical user interface (GUI) and pull-down menus that made the personal computers of today possible and approachable by the general user.

• The first PC was released in 1975 it was called the “0”

• Bill gates started writing a language called BASIC for the Altair, so that it could be used for simple applications like word processing, basic accounting and some games.To market his programmes he started a little company called Microsoft.
  

• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple.Apple 2 was launched at a computer fair in 1978

• IBM merge with Microsoft - Gary Kildall, the head of Digital Research Inc, and Bill Gates, the owner of Microsoft ( Biggest Software developer in the valley.) Bill Gates purchases "Kudos" an operating system and IBM through assocaition with Microsoft takes over the larger share of the market.

• 1998 Steve Jobs returns to Apple and Apple Resurrects

• Other Interesting information provided:

1.The internet, is a network of networks (what is often called an internetwork).
2.World Wibe Web WWW - (i) internetworking and (ii) hypertext to make an easy-to-use,
powerful, global system that shares all information accessible as part of a seamless
hypertext space. The Web includes all the internet sites that people have made available
on servers around the world.
3.The web is an application of the internet
4.Early internet applications are:
Email
File Transfer protocol –FTP
Internet Relay Chat IRC
MUD- multi user playing machines.