History of the Computer and Internet

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  • DARPA

    DARPA

    DARPA websiteDefense Advanced Research Agency. Given the mission to create technologies that would help out our military in the Cold War. The Galactic Network was an idea that created to access information by data or programs electronically.
  • Creation of ARPANET

    Creation of ARPANET

    configuration of network computers using Honeywall minicomputers to create ARPANET. Located in University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at Los Angeles, SRI at Stanford and the University of Utah.
  • MITs Altair 8800

    MITs Altair 8800

    Used switches to input data into the computer and patterned lights to recieve the output of the data
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    History of Personal Computer and Internet

  • Apple I

    Apple I

    Built in keyboard with a TV like screen
    Origin of Apple
  • Apple II

    Apple II

    Apple IIColor Computer with expansion slots and floppy dirve support. Incase keyboard,
  • Osbourne 1

    Osbourne 1

    1st commercially portable computer.Weight and size of a sewing machince. Cost around $1800. Contains bundled software including word processing and spreadsheets.
  • IBM PC

    IBM PC

    Origin of IBMMost significant computer in personal computer history. Ran a 16-bit CPU on a 8-bit bus. Contained 5 expansion slots. Atleast 16 KB RAM.
  • Domain Name System

    Domain Name System

    The DNS is the way the internet domain names are located and tranlated into Internet Protocol addresses.
    Host names we are familiar with include: .com, .edu, .gov, .org, .net
  • Tim Berners Lee

    Tim Berners Lee

    More about LeeCreates the World Wide Web in 1989. Later comes out with HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Uniform Resource Identifier (URL) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
  • Windows 3.1

    Windows 3.1

    Details on Windows 3.1Windows 3.1 became the default opperating system in a majority of personal computers being shipped out.