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The first programmable mechanical computer was designed by Charles Babbage -
Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal System which is a classification system that was developed in 1876 meant to organize books and other library related resources -
Paul Octet and Henri LaFontaine generated a Universal Decimal System, which allowed people to collect, organize, and share the world’s information through an international document center.
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Computers began to become more modern -
Modern age for computers -
Vannevar Bush: He died before he could put his ideas to use, but his ideas inspired those who built the internet and web -
Interactive computers were developed by computer scientists, scholars, physicists, etc -
George Devol generated field work for robotics which led to the first ever operating robot to be developed -
Larry Roberts and Thomas Merrill worked together to create a computer in Massachusetts and linked it to a computer in California. It had a low-speed, dial-up telephone line. Which led to the first wide-area computer network -
Additional computers were added to this computer network -
The computer system was introduced to the public at the International Computer Communication Conference by Robert Kahn ARPANET is known to us as the internet. Once it was running smoothly, applications on the system could be created. The first email message was sent by Ray Tomlinson -
The term internet was used, originally called the Internetwork by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal, and Carl Sunshine -
Data could be transmitted from one device to another and received on the other end. It was called TCP, Transmission control Protocol
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The World Wide Web was developed by a british engineer named Tim Berners-Lee -
A regional network was connected to the internet, called MERIT, a network from Michigan. They suggested that the commercial potential side of the internet should be explored further. Their goal was to develop and own a computer, transmission line, and begin to solicit customers. The internet was considered to be small-scale (fewer than 5 million users worldwide) Was known to be difficult to use -
Was when the Telecommunications Act was created, which stated that all U.S. Classroom, hospitals, and libraries must be connected to the internet This is when the internet became a social place -
Google, developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin was now available to the public -
Google was evolving into a more organized and efficient site Social Media was on the uprise through the invention of Applications (Apps) https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor -
The Dark Web expanded, Bitcoin was created, which is a form of digital currency that is untraceable. Mostly used for illegal activities and illegal businesses -
More than 617 million account detail from a list of companies were stolen and taken to the dark web -
The internet will continue to develop each and every day. New discoveries will be made and it will become easier to use and more convenient for its users