Computer History

By oewq09

  • The creation of ARPANET

    The creation of ARPANET
    ARPANET, in existence from 1969 to 1990, was the first significant computer network to utilize packet-switching, and through its standardization of the TCP/IP protocol suite is seen as the progenitor of the modern Internet.

  • The first e-mail is sent

    The first e-mail is sent
    The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson. What kind of verse did he put for posterity? Well, nothing more and nothing less than the first few letters of the computer keyboard. An indecipherable text without much meaning.

  • IBM launches a PC

    IBM launches a PC
    IBM achieved a milestone in the history of humanity in general and of computing in particular: with the commercialization of the personal computer, or PC, it managed to turn computing from being a hidden mystery for the majority, to becoming something useful and practical for everyone.

  • Tim Berners-Lee writes the first website

    Tim Berners-Lee writes the first website
    And here’s the link: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html It was exactly on December 20, 1990, when Berners-Lee, a British scientist, uploaded this page to CERN’s servers, with the mission of explaining the basic principles of what the modern web was going to be.

  • Google was founded

    Google was founded
    In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met as colleagues at Stanford. Already as computer students, they collaborated on a search engine called BackRub that operated on Stanford’s servers until it was too bandwidth-intensive to cope with the university.