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History of computers and internet
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Invention of the transistor
The invention of the transistor, an important piece of computer technology by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley began the development on computers. The transistor produced was a three terminal electronics technology. -
UNIVEC
The first UNIVAC computer was produced. -
Invention of the integrated circuit
Jack Kilbily had an idea about the integrated circuit which is a chip that join transistors, resistors and several wires for a piece of electronic that became demanded by computer inventors. -
First mouse
The computer mouse was invented that had the ease of movements at clicking, invented by Douglas Engelbart a person who referred to the device as an indicator for a display system. -
ARAPNET
ARPANET had connected four computers to its network. -
Invention of email
ARPANET is used to send the first e-mail that is by a research firm called Bolt Boranek which used the features e-mails feature such as @ from two computers located locally to send and the other to read. -
First global networking
The university college of London and Royal Radar Establishment across Norway had the first overseas connection with ARPANET. -
The floppy disk
Alan Shugart managed to create a 100k floppy disk at that year. -
First laptop
It was invented by a British designer. The laptop was the GRiD Compass. -
First hard drive (Seagate)
The ST-506 was released from Seagate. -
The first home computer
The first personal use of a computer system using the 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system using the audio cassette for the storage was released by IBM. -
The commodore 64
The device was announced and released to be handed to the public -
The browser wars
Netscape and Microsoft both released browsers.
