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Ada Lovelace Daughter of Lord Byron. Analytical engine (CPU, memory, punch cards). First software engineer. Recognized that computers had more potentiality than just doing math.
Charles Babbage Thought that maybe machines could be used to do math and stuff instead of humans. Inspired by the loom machine (Jacquard Loom).
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Ballistics and weather. First programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.
Hobbyists Time sharing and sharing infomration about new computer discoveries. Homebrew Club (1975-1986) which was a popular hobbyist club.
Apple 1 1976. With the developement of a new motherboard.
Apple 2 1977
Xerox PARC Vertical monitor (like paper). Had mouse! Lase printer. GUI. Crucial role in mordern day computer technology.
Apple v Microsoft GUI lawsuit. Apple sues Micro cuz apparently it has the same look and feel as the Mac.
Vanevar Bush Manhatten Project. Started the National Science Foundation. Wrote As We May Think (memex, growth of technology intelligence). Information overload. Linking things instead of organizing it. WWW
Distributed Network Network of networks. JCR Licklider. Intergalactic Computer Network. ARPANET (1969). Cold War uh oh Soviet Union!
Packet Swtiching TCP/IP. Vint Cerf and Bon Kahn. Exchanging messages in a more efficient way. Cuz it doesn't take up all the circuit space.
Radia Perelman Packet efficiency. The Spanning Tree Protocol.
Network neutrality Treating all data equally. No blocking or prioritization of data. Connection from ISP to users network.
Community Stuff Email (1972) and listservs where people could have discussions of certain topics. Bulletin boards. First online weddin (19833)
Modems Essential hardware that connected home network to ISP. In 1990 less than 20% of homes had computers.
Commercialization The Source (1979). CompueServe. America Online (1985). AOL bought Time Warner. internet becoming bigger and more influential.
Regulation AI Gore "Information Superhighway". Legislation 1986-1993. Military to commercial net. Remember the internet stemmed from the US goal to be more technologically advanced than the Soviet Union!!!!
World Wide Web WWW (1989) First website with hyperlinks that allowed public to have access. Tim Berners Lee!!! Switzerland.
Graphical Browser (1993) Mark Andreessen. Funded by Gore's High Speed Computing Bill. Netscape.
Index Indexing information. Spiders. Robot.txt. Yahoo.
Search Google. Page bank. Relevance. Personalized data. Freshness. Inspired by librarians on organzing their data.
DMCA (1998) Notice/Takedown Web 2.0. User generated content. Platforms where people could upload their content (like Google and YouTube). Weird info would also be published (govt documents, personal info, copyrighted movies).
Mosaic Internet Information Browser. W3 client
Created by: Bogus
 

 



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