| One of the fascinating things
to happen in my life is the introduction to computers.
With the boom of internet, my bondage with computer has
increased dramatically. I like to give a brief history of
computers and internet. Charles Babbage(1792-1871) was the first to think of a machine
to produce and store the tables of logarithms invented by
John Napier. The origins of the present technological
revolution can be traced to the 30's. The Harvard Mark 1
computer designed by Howard Aiken is the world's first
digital computer which made use of electro-mechanical
devices. It was developed jointly by the International
Business Machines(IBM) and the Harvard University in
1944.
Internet did begin in a very
seed-corn fashion with a Defense Advanced Research
Projects
Agency (DARPA) project in 1969 titled Resource Sharing
Computer Networks. Vinton Cerf, founder of The Internet
Society, was actually involved in some of the early
packet networking work at Stanford University and UCLA
although he was by no means alone. To many people coming
online today, the Internet looks like the World Wide Web.
WWW was started by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in
Switzer-land in 1989 to facilitate the sharing of
information among researchers in high-energy particle
physics. It extended the concept of "hypertext"
not only within a document, and between documents, but
also between different computer sites accessible to each
other via the Internet(Jack Rickard)Other Computer History related Links
History Timeline of
Microcomputers
Origins of the
Internet
Internet Background and Basics
CPU History
History of Computer
Graphics
Apple Computer
Origins of the Macintosh Interface
Motorola
The Museum of HP
Calculators The best calculators ever made.
Texas Instruments The
developers of the transistor and integrated circuit.
Hewlett-Packard One
of the original innovators.
Charles Babbage
Institute Academic center for the history of computers. .
Computer History
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