Even though the history of computers is not very long, the development computers have gone through is tremendous. In the beginning, only a few thought that computers would go somewhere in the future.
Today, they are a necessity in our everyday lives. Most people cannot imagine life without them.
For example, an IC that cost $1000 in 1959 only cost $10 in 1965. Gordon Moore also predicted that the number of components in an IC would double yearly from this point on.
This theory became known as Moore's law. By 1968 Doug Engelbart was able to demonstrate a word processor.
This word processor was a very primitive hypertext system with a collaborative application. These three things are now very common computer applications that we use consistently.
This year Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel, which is a very large corporation today. A year later Xerox founded a Research Center in Palo Alto.
The stated mission of this research center was to explore the "architecture of information." By 1970 the Fairchild Semiconductor introduces a 256-bit RAM chip.
Later that year 1970 Intel introduced a 1K RAM chip and the 4004. The 4004 was a 4-bit microprocessor.
A year later Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak also built and began selling the "blue boxes." They developed and sold these things in southern California.
Two years later they developed the 8008. The 8008 was an 8-bit microprocessor.
One year later, Bill Gates and Paul Allen create the Traf-O-Data. The Traf-O-Data was meant to assist them in selling their computer traffic-analysis systems.
In 1972, Gary Kildall began to write the PL/M. The PL/M was the first high-level programming language to be developed for the Intel microprocessor.
In 1974 Jonathan A. Titus designed the Mark-8 which became known as "Your Personal Minicomputer." Only one year later, Popular Electronics shared information about the MITS Altair 8800.
This was the first computer to become widely known as the personal computer. The resulting thousands of orders for the 8800 literally pulled MITS back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Shortly after Paul Allen and Bill Gates create the BASIC for the Altair 8800. The result is the company of Microsoft that we know of today.
By 1977 Apple begins to sell its Apple II. The cost of this computer was $1,195 and featured 16K of RAM but no monitor.
Two years later, Software Arts created the first spreadsheet program called Visicalc. Visicalc was instantly desired for use by every business and it became very successful.
The number of programs that were sold per month started at 500, but quickly rose to 12,000. With the success of Visicalc, Apple drew in 50% of the personal computer market.
In 1980, Microsoft asked IBM if they could create a BASIC for its personal computer. IBM agreed and the IBM PC began to be sold by August of 1981.
Three years later the famous Apple Macintosh began to be sold. The Macintosh was very simple with a graphical interface that use a 8-MHz, 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, and a built-in 9-inch black and white.
Microsoft began shipping Windows 1.0 in November of 1985. Motorola also announced their 68040 which used a 32-bit 25-MHz microprocessor.
The revenues for Microsoft reach $1 billion by 1989. This was the first year they reached such success in their sales.
The history of the internet began in the early 50s and 60s when MIT began developing the idea of timesharing. Timesharing is the idea that you can link a large number of people to a single computer using remote terminals.
By 1962 Paul Baran of RAND comes up with the idea of distributed, packet-switching networks. ARPANET, a primitive form of the internet, goes online in 1969.
By 1973 Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf create a more developed, but very basic idea of the internet by 1973. In 1974, BBN finally opens the first public packet-switched network.
This network is called Telenet. Five years later a UUCP link creates the USENET.
The link is created between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Duke University. The first MUD is also developed at the University of Essex in 1979.
By 1987, the number of network hosts breaks 1,000. Only two years later this number hits 100,000.
In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web. From this time on the internet continued growing until the whole world was considered to be connected in 1995.
The development of the computer and the internet has changed the entire world.
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Tom Selwick has worked as a marketer for the past 18 years and written hundreds of articles about marketing and direct mail fulfillment.
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