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| ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) |
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| the first “full-service” electronic comp was introduced in 1946 in University of Pennsylvania. |
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| First commercial computers |
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| o IBM sold and rent computers to commercial customers. |
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| 3 leading personal computers |
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o Bill Gates founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975.
o Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak perfected Apple II.
o IBM contracted with Microsoft to use the Microsoft operating system in its IBM PC, first introduced in 1981. |
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o Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation produced the plan of a computer communication network, which featured the key concept of “packet switched network”.
o Protocols: common communication rules
o Instantaneous “detours” or “rerouting” |
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| What was the "switched network" that Paul Baran had created called? |
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| o The switched network, called ARPAnet, went online in 1969 and became fully operational and reliable within 1 year. |
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| o Ray Tomlinson created the first email program in 1972. |
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| What was the internet originaly made for? |
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| o In 1972, Winton Cerf at Stanford University, and the military’s Robert Kahn coined the term “the internet”. |
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o 1956 – he foresaw linked computers creating a country of citizens “informed about, and interested in, and involved in, the process of government”.
o Man-Computer Symbiosis, seminal work on the potential and promise of computer networks. |
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o Global Village
o Media as Extensions of Human Bodies
o The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), and The Medium Is the Message (1967) |
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| o He wrote about a nationless world, where the electronic technology turns us into indistinguishable nonindividuals, rallying around products. |
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| o WANs: wide area network |
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| o ISPs: internet service providers |
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| o VoIP: voice over internet protocol |
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| o URL: uniform resource locator |
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| o HTTP: hypertext transfer protocols |
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