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History of the Personal Computer and the Internet

By gammonkr

  • The UNIVAC

    The UNIVAC
    The UNIVAC was the first successful electronic digital computer. It ran on magnetic tape and predicted to outcome of the Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential election with only 5 % of the vote as data. The UNIVAC

  • The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
    ARPANET was an early packet switching network that was one of the steps to developing the internet. ARPANET

  • TCP/IP Protocol

    TCP/IP Protocol
    Bob Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the protocol that allowed computers to communicate. Kahn And Cerf

  • Apple I

    Apple I
    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the circiut borad for the first personal computer. Apple I

  • Apple II

    Apple II
    The Apple II had a color display, sound and game paddles. Its operating system was stored in ROM and it used floppy disks to load programs. Apple II

  • TRS-80

    TRS-80
    Radio Shack released to compete with Apple and sold 10,000 units in a month. It had a monchrome display and 4 KB of RAM TRS 80

  • Osbourne

    Osbourne
    The Osbourne was the first portable computer. It weight almost 25 pounds and had a 5 inch screen Osbourne

  • IBM PC (5150)

    IBM PC (5150)
    The IBM PC wass marketed to both businesses and consumers and hard between 64 KB and 256 KB of RAM. IBM

  • The Lisa

    The Lisa
    The Lisa was released by Apple and the first computer to that used a graphical user interface (GUI) that made the computer easier to use. Legend has it Steve Jobs got the idea from Xerox. <a hrf='http://www.oldcomputers.net/lisa.html' >Lisa</a>

  • HTTP Protocol

    HTTP Protocol
    Tim Berners-Lee developed and made public the World Wide Web, a subset of the internet that is connected through hypertext. Tim Berners-Lee