History of the Computer and Internet

DARPA

Mar 16, 1962

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

Sep 27, 1968

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

Aug 5, 1975

Used switches to input data into the computer and patterned lights to recieve the output of the data

History of Personal Computer and Internet

Period: Aug 5, 1975 to Jan 4, 2016

Apple I

Sep 4, 1975

Built in keyboard with a TV like screen
Origin of Apple

Apple II

Jun 10, 1977

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

Osbourne 1

Apr 5, 1981

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

IBM PC

Aug 12, 1981

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

Nov 5, 1983

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

Jun 15, 1990

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

Apr 18, 1992

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