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Major Events in the History of Computing & the Internet
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Humphry Davy - The lighbulb
In 1802 the Scientist Humphry Davy invented the first electric light. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This will later be used to create LED lights which is the lights we see in our computer screens, which is very important to the history of Technology & the Computer. -
Alan Turing - The enigma code breaker
Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer, and a pioneer of computer science. In July of 1942, Turing got known for his work at Bletchley Park during World War II, and his part in breaking the German Enigma code. -
The first coding language: Short Code
Short Code was proposed by John Mauchly in 1949 and originally known as Brief Code. Short Code was one of the first higher-level languages ever developed for an electronic computer.[1] Unlike machine code, Short Code statements represented mathematic expressions rather than a machine instruction. Also known as an automatic programming, the source code was not compiled but executed through an interpreter to simplify the programming process; the execution time was much slower though. -
Start of the internet
This Internet Timeline begins in 1962, before the word 'Internet' is invented. This was when they got the first workable prototypes of ¨the internet¨, with the help of ARPANET. -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart, best known as the inventor of the computer mouse, which made us able to, click, drag, select, and much more instead of only being ablte to type code. He also made numerous other groundbreaking contributions to the computing industry, like: paving the way for videoconferencing, hyperlinks, text editing, and other technologies we use daily. His career started when he invented the Mouse in 1963. -
First Computer hooked up to the ¨Internet¨
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the first ¨wide area packet switching network¨ and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol. These 2 technologies became the foundation of the Internet. ARPANET was created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in 29 of December 1969. -
Unix: The new groundbreaking operating system
Another major milestone during the 60’s & 70's was when Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson invented Unix, arguably the world's most important computer operating system. -
The beginning of Ethernet
In 1973, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf collaborate to develop a protocol for linking multiple networks together. While working at Xerox, Robert Metcalfe develops a system using cables that allows for transfer of more data over a network. He names this system Alto Aloha, but it later becomes known as Ethernet. -
Bill Gates - Microsoft & Windows
On April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, a company that makes computer software. Microsoft later in 1981 started creating the Interface now called ¨Windows¨. -
ARPANET and TCP/IP Continuation
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web (WWW)
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. As the web began to grow, Tim realised that its true potential would only be unleashed if anyone, anywhere could use. When he later in 1991 opened it up for the public. This was also when he created the first web page.