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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
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
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History of Personal Computer and Internet
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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
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
The DNS is the way the internet domain names are located and tranlated into Internet Protocol addresses.
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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
Details on Windows 3.1Windows 3.1 became the default opperating system in a majority of personal computers being shipped out.