History of the computer

Lecture: History of the computer
Charles Babbage- 19th century born 1791
Invented 1st digital computer it was mechanical not electronic
Computers first commercially produced by IBM 1950’s
Gordon Moore produced Moors law- the capacity of microchips doubles every 2 yrs
Xerox Parc Developed the mouse, graphical user interface (GUI) and pull down menus
1975 first PC was released named 0
Bill Gates wrote a language call BASIC for the Altair used for applications like word processing, basic accounting and games, and started Microsoft
Apple created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
Produced Apple 1- consisting of single circuit board, no case, no key board
2 yrs after Altar Apple II was launched in 1978
1979 ‘Killer-application’ bought off Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston
IBM and Microsoft
Bill Gates Language and Operating system was sold to IBM and was payed royalties for every use of it
Internet- a network of networks, the sum of interconnected computer hardware and the software that runs it
Definition of Internet
i) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the internet protocol (IP) or its subsequent extension
ii) is able to support communications using the transmission control protocol/ internet protocol (TCP/IP) suit or its subsequent extension/ follow ons and or othe IP compatible networks
7 servers across the world
www- World wide web
HTML- hyper text mark up language is language web pages written in
Internet is not same as the web, the web is just one part of the broader internet which includes many other things as well as the web.
Early internet applications Email (electronic mail), IRC (internet relay chat MSN), MUD, MOO’s, MUSHes (multiple user platforms)

Reading: 'Whats new about new media"
What’s new about new media? Discusses what is considered when deciphering between new and old media in terms of technological development of new media and remaking of old media. The World Wide Web is one of the fastest developing forms of new media today, though still coinciding with old forms of media such as the news paper and radio by digitalizing them on the internet. The use of the internet connects people and information through computers which connect to a high speed telecommunications network and allows for interpersonal and group communication.
The World Wide Web has four features that are important to the popularization of the internet.
1. Allowed the display of colored pictures, audio and music, data and text which introduced multi media capability to the internet.
2. Based upon hypertext principles, allowing for linking of information, links from one info source provide simple point and click access to related information available from other sources.
3. Hypertexts value became more apparent with development of web browsers which provided data bases of all info stored on the internet.
4. Development of http: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which provided a platform- independent means of connection between websites and HTML: Hypertext Markup Language, a writing source code for the World Wide Web.
These factors and more are why the internet has become the fastest growing medium ever recorded.