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modem
A modem (modulator-demodulator): The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data. Modems grew out of the need to connect teleprinters over ordinary phone lines instead of the more expensive leased lines which had previously been used for current loop–based teleprinters and automated telegraphs. In 1942, IBM adapted this technology to their unit record equipment and were able to transmit punched cards at 25 bits/second. -
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. -
first tablet
The first tablet was controlled with a type of pen. The pen had a tip that controlles the tablet. The tablet was shown into publicity in 1956 so they did not look and did not function as modernized as they do nowadays. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was a, soviet unmanned, satelite that was powered with kerosole. It weighed 48 kg and traveled at over 28.000 km per hour. It orbited the earth until 4th January 1958. Although it only gave a monotone beep, the sucsesfull orbit of the beachball sized satelite was pretty famous. From the launch of Sputnik and the U.S.S.R. testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was born -
THE FIRST COMPUTER GAME
In 1958, William Higinbotham made an interactive computer game named Tennis for Two for the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s annual visitor’s day. This display, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, was meant to promote atomic power, and used an analog computer and the vector display system of an oscilloscope.[12][13] -
on-line
In August 1962, Licklider and Welden Clark published the paper "On-Line Man Computer" -
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII /ˈæski/ ASS-kee)[1] is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet that encodes 128 specified characters - the numbers 0-9, the letters a-z and A-Z, some basic punctuation symbols, some control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a blank space - into the 7-bit binary integers.<a >ASCII</a>wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII -
First email provider
Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first early email porvider, also known as MAILBOX, from 1965. SNDMSG, was a programm where you could send messages on the same computer. You could only send messages to different users on the same computer. The computers must be able to send messages to another address. In 1972, Ray Tomlinson was credited for inventing email. @, from our computer keyboard, is now the symbol to send emails from a computer to another. -
ARPANET
Arpanet began developing in 1966 , short for Advance Research Projects Agency Network .Arpanet was a wide area network linking many Universities and research centres together to exchange information. It is the so called grandfather of the internet known today. Arpanet was also used military reasons e.g. nuclear bomb shelter. -
Project Gutenberg
This is the link for Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive books. It offers over 45,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. PG was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. -
the first mobile phone
The first mobile phone was invented by martin cooper. As he hered many people say that they dont want to just talk to people in their house or in an office, they want to be able to talk on the phone without a wire attached. Martin started the 10-year process of bringing the portable cell phone to market with each phone costing the consumer $3,500. -
The invention of the first chat programme
The first chat programme was called " Talkomatic" and was invented by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley from the University of Illnois in 1973. In comparison to modern chat programmes, every letter was broadcasted separately.It was only possible to communicate with a small group of people and there was no video option. -
IP
IP(Internet Protocol) is the primary network protocol used on the Internet, developed in the 1970's by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. IP ia often used together with the Transport Control Protocol(TCP) and is referred to interchangeably as TCP/IP. IP supports unique adressing for computers on a network. -
Ethernet
ethernet- Is a family of computer network technologies for local area networks
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The word internet
The word internet is used for the first time in 1982 (not on JUne 10 though). It was used by Eldon. -
first laptop
256KB of RAM and a 4.77 MHz Intel Processor made your computing dreams come to life and just like the Macbook Air of today it didn’t have a regular Hard Drive. Instead it supported floppy disks and weighed in at a whopping 4.1 Kilograms. -
www.FIRST:com
In October 1989 a major incident called the "Wank worm" hightlited the need for communication and coordination between internet security groups globally who had previously been facing problems with languages and time zones. First has memeber all over the world protecting the internet from breaches like these. -
WWW
-Invented by Tim berners-Lee
-www means world wide web
-Made by the company Cern
-Developed 1989 till August 1991
-1990 Cern became the largest internet site in Europ mainly because of www. -
first com website
The folks at CERN, the organization responsible for devising the fundamental web standards had the first com website. -
HTML
the HTML is a computer language that allows the the creation of websites. It is relativly easy to learn. The site author types in a series of small codes these are the tags. The prototype was written by Tim Berners-Lee. The language is quite powerfull as you can can create many things. -
Facebook
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and a feww of his friend at Harvard.
