Monday, August 10, 2009

The history of computing and the internet

So in week 2 we looked at the history of the internet and computing,

A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER
Computers have their beginnings back in pre-history, starting with the abacus. Have a look!



Abacus - c. 3000 B.C.




Transistors - 1947




Doug Engelbart - 1968




Apple II - 1977




IBM PC - 1981




World Wide Web - 1991


note that all the side heading (i.e electronics) provide links for further information

info sourced from: website


The timeline you can see is only a very brief history of computing a more in depth history can be viewed at the computer history museum

thats it for the history of computing...
stay tuned for the history of the internet!!!!!

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