The History of Digital Computers and the Creation of the Internet

By k@m3lz
  • The Printing Press
    1450

    The Printing Press

    The invention of this machine by Johannes Gutenberg created an era of mass production and communication. Most importantly: of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines.
  • "Computers"

    The origin of the name of the device; a person who is skilled in arithmetic and the fast computation of numbers.
  • Electricity

    The Industrial Revolution introduced electricity in the production of products and every day life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCpqN7GmLYk
  • The First Programmable Computer

    Designed by Charles Babbage.
  • The First Computer Programmer

    Ada Lovelace, who handwrote all her coding.
    https://findingada.com/about/who-was-ada/
  • The Keypunch Machine

    The Keypunch Machine

    Invented by Herman Hollerith and in turn information processing.
  • Technology

    The birth century of the Digital Computer, Mobile Phone, and the Internet.
  • The Differential Analyzer

    The Differential Analyzer

    Vannevar Bush's room-sized machine which could analyze differential equations, a huge calculator.
  • The First Electronic Digital Computer

    The First Electronic Digital Computer

    Alan Turing's design.
  • "As We May Think"

    "As We May Think"

    An article written by Vannevar Bush with his concept of a memex; the birth of the hyperlink concept.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robots

    Artificial Intelligence and Robots

    John McCarthy and his team of researchers were funded by the US Department of Defense to create smart machines. The development of machines capable of solving puzzles and playing chess.
  • DARPA and the First Computer Network

    DARPA and the First Computer Network

    The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency created ARPANET.
  • More Computers on ARPANET

    The advent of annex points being dispersed protected servers of networks, allowing more computers to participate in coordinated activity.
  • The International Computer Communication Conference And the First Email

    The International Computer Communication Conference And the First Email

    Robert Kahn successfully demonstrated the system to the public, meanwhile Ray Tomlinson created the @ symbol as an electronic locator.
  • Desk Sized Computers

    Desk Sized Computers

    IBM and Hewlett-Packard create them for scientific and research purposes.
  • The Internetwork "Internet"

    The coined term in a transmission protocol document by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dala, and Carl Sunshine. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc675
  • The Apple Computer

    The Apple Computer

    Created by Steve Jobs and Wozniak.
  • Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol

    The standardization of the transmission of data worldwide, and resulted in the world wide Internet.
    https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/computer-networks/tcp-ip-model/
  • NSFNET, the Modern Internet Backbone

    The National Science Foundation Network funded five large, interconnected super-computing centers for universities and colleges to connect to regional networks.
  • WWW.

    The WorldWideWeb was invented as a collection of documents linked through hypertext, created by Tim Berners-Lee https://archive.org/details/weavingweborigin00bern_0
  • MERIT and Commercialization

    The NSF was proposed by a Michigan Network the possibility of the internet to be used for commercial purposes, specifically to solicit customers. Considered controversial
  • Privatized Internet

    At the end of the MERIT project, companies like AOL, Sprint, ATT offered packages to access the internet, making it a pay-to-use (privatized) service.
  • Google

    Google

    The invention of a search bar utilizing the amount of times a website is linked/shared by other websites or used as a cited source or referenced.
  • The DMCA

    The Digital-Millennium Copyright Act introduced to shield the websites for liabilities regarding copyright infringement on the grounds of cataloguing and archiving. https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/
  • The 4G Smart Phone

    The 4G Smart Phone

    The introduction of a fourth generation cell phone that includes internet use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X07GjKjF5TY