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10 Major Developments in the History of the Personal Computer and Internet

By amandak2017

  • The Z3

    The Z3
    Created by Konrad Zuse, it was the first programmable computer. It was built with electrical telephone relays, as opposed to switches. It contained almost all of the components that are found in the modern computer. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/hc/zuse/node4.html

  • Universal Automatic Computer

    Universal Automatic Computer
    The UNIVAC was the first successful commercial electronic digital computer. It operated on magnetic tape. The purpose was to compute large amounts of input and output. It gained recognition after correctly predicting the presidential race in 1951. https://www.thocp.net/hardware/univac.htm

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

    Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
    ARPAnet was the first wide area packet switching network. The first Interface Message Processor was delivered from BBN to the Networks Measurements Center at UCLA. Messages then begun to be successfully exchanged http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm

  • Transmission Control Protocol

    Transmission Control Protocol
    TCP was developed by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn. It is a set of communication protocols that enable a way for all of the computers on the world’s mini-networks to communicate with one another. The current acronym today is TCP/IP. http://history-computer.com/Internet/Maturing/TCPIP.html

  • Altair 8800

    Altair 8800
    The Altair 8800 is the first personal computer. This enabled consumers to create their own programs, but contained no keyboard or monitor. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334396

  • Apple II

    Apple II
    The Apple II featured a color monitor, sound, game paddles, an operating system stored in a read-only memory, and 8 expansion slots on the motherboard for additional cards. Later additions to the Apple II included a spreadsheet program, word processor, and desktop publishing software. The Apple II is said to have sparked the boom in the purchasing of personal computers. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334638

  • Apple II

    Apple II
    Although it had ran at the same speed and had the same processor as the Apple I, the Apple II featured a color display, a case, keyboard, and eight expansion slots. It was considered to be the first user-friendly system due to being able to run right out of the box. The most popular feature was the new spreadsheet program, VisiCalc. http://oldcomputers.net/appleii.html

  • The Osborne 1

    The Osborne 1
    The first commercially successful portable computer. It featured a display screen, two floppy-disk drives, a Z80 microprocessor, and 64k of RAM. It also came with a software package which included WordStar word processing, Microsoft MBASIC, SuperCalc spreedsheet, etc. http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/Osborne.html

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He laid out the vision for what would become the web in “Information Management: A Proposal”. It was developed for the purpose of sharing information automatically between scientists and universities everywhere. https://home.cern/topics/birth-web

  • Introduction of the WWW to the Public Domain

    Introduction of the WWW to the Public Domain
    CERN released the World Wide Wed software to the public domain with a public license. With the software to run a web server freely available, basic browser, and library of code, the WWW grew. https://home.cern/topics/birth-web