History of the Personal Computer and Internet

By Selin Narin

  • The UNIVAC

    The UNIVAC
    UNIVACThe UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States

  • Commercial minicomputer

    Commercial minicomputer
    PDP-8The Canadian Chalk River Nuclear Lab needed a special device to monitor a reactor. Instead of designing a custom controller, two young engineers from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) -- Gordon Bell and Edson de Castro -- do something unusual: they develop a small, general purpose computer and program it to do the job. A later version of that machine became the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer. The PDP-8 sold for $18,000, one-fifth the price of a small IBM System/360 mainf

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    ARPANET ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet. Based on a concept first published in 1967, ARPANET was developed under the direction of the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).

  • TCP/IP

    TCP/IP
    TCPIP Kahn therefore set four goals for the design of what would become the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP): Network connectivity. Any network could connect to another network through a gateway.
    Distribution. There would be no central network administration or control.
    Error recovery. Lost packets would be retransmitted.
    Black box design. No internal changes would have to be made to a network to connect it to other net

  • The Altair: the first personal computer

    The Altair: the first personal computer
    About AltairThe Altair was the world's first personal computer ( PC ) to attract a substantial number of users. When it appeared on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics , the Altair 8800 ignited the (still accelerating) personal computer boom.

  • Apple I

    Apple I
    History of Apple ComputersApple 1 was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

  • Apple II

    Apple II
    Apple 2Sold complete with a main logic board, switching power supply, keyboard, case, manual, game paddles, and cassette tape containing the game Breakout, the Apple-II finds popularity far beyond the hobbyist community which made up Apple’s user community until then. When connected to a color television set, the Apple II produced brilliant color graphics for the time. Millions of Apple IIs were sold between 1977 and 1993, making it one of the longest-lived lines of personal computers.

  • Macintosh Portable

    Macintosh Portable
    Macintosh portableApple had initially included a handle in their Macintosh computers to encourage users to take their Macs on the go, though not until five years after the initial introduction does Apple introduce a true portable computer. The Macintosh Portable was heavy, weighing sixteen pounds, and expensive (US$6,500).

  • Apple Lisa

    Apple Lisa
    Lisa Lisa is the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI)

  • HTML

    HTML
    HTML Tim Berners-Lee, invented HTML or hypertext markup language which is a language that is universal to computers and brought about the start of the internet.