2-2 Historical Background

  • Vannevar Bush

    Vannevar Bush
    Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, Bush had a breakthrough revelation with information of electronic technology that had not yet been previously considered
  • First Satellite was Launched

    First Satellite was Launched
    The Soviet Union launched the first satellite
  • MITRE

    MITRE
    The MITRE Coporation was formed from the Computer System Division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Lincoln Laboratories and had conducted the software development that is known as Sage's digital computer system
  • Douglas Engelbart

    Douglas Engelbart
    Douglas Englelbart invented the mouse and presented/demostrated the mouse at his first conference
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    A special computer called Interface Message Processor was developed on ARPANET to realize the design of packet switiching
  • Mail!

    Mail!
    Mail was added to the FTP program and was a transport for emails and sent separate copies of each email to each recipient.
  • Will Crowther

    Will Crowther
    Will Crowther created the first widely used computer adventure game and also had worked on ARPANET
  • Robert Kahn

    Robert Kahn
    The first networking protocol was replaced wih another protocol called TCP/Ip, which was invented by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf. It became the most widely used network protocol in the world.
  • Tim Berners

    Tim Berners
    Tim Berners Lee invented the web and launched it to be known as the first world web server
  • Mozilla 1.0

    Mozilla 1.0
    The final version of Mozilla 1.0 was the first commerical web browser that was released
  • Internet Explorer

    The company Microsoft released Windows 95, an operating system that included the web browser, Internet Explorer.
  • Internet Explorer

    Internet Explorer
    The company Microsoft released Windows 95, an operating system that included the web browser caled Internet Explorer.
  • Google

    Google
    Google was created