computer history

By allison.mora

  • first electronic

    sourceone of the first electronic devices was invented around 1835 by an American scientist called Joseph Henry. He developed a remote switch called a relay, which worked magnetism and currents. It was part of a telegraph and was later used in a telephone. 0.

  • KDKA first radio station

    KDKA first radio station
    sourceOn November 2, 1920, station KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast (a term coined by Conrad himself). They chose that date because it was election day, and the power of radio was proven when people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before

  • The ENICA

    The ENICA

  • Trasistor

    Trasistor
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  • IBM first computer

    IBM first computer
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    The Internatonal Business Machines came out with their first computer machine

  • DEC first mini computer

    DEC first mini computer
    The DEC made its first mini computer

  • merit network

    sourceThe Merit Network[21] was formed in 1966 as the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad to explore computer networking between three of Michigan's public universities as a means to help the state's educational and economic development

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense

  • CYCLADES

    CYCLADES
    SOURCEThe CYCLADES packet switching network was a French research network designed and directed by Louis Pouzin. First demonstrated in 1973, it was developed to explore alternatives to the initial ARPANET design and to support network research generally. It was the first network to make the hosts responsible for the reliable delivery of data, rather than the network itself, using unreliable datagrams and associated end-to-end protocol mechanisms

  • APPLE 1

    sourceA fully assembled Apple I computer, with a homemade wooden computer case

  • Acorn computer

    Acorn computer
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  • UUCP and Usenet

    UUCP and Usenet
    sourceIn 1979, two students at Duke University, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, originated the idea of using Bourne shell scripts to transfer news and messages on a serial line UUCP connection with nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • NPL

    sourcesourceIn 1965, Donald Davies of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) proposed a national data network based on packet-switching. The proposal was not taken up nationally, but by 1970 he had designed and built the Mark I packet-switched network to meet the needs of the multidisciplinary laboratory and prove the technology under operational conditions.[20] By 1976 12 computers and 75 terminal devices were attached and more were added until the network was replaced in 1986

  • first touch phone

    first touch phone
    sourceThe IBM Simon was the first phone with a touchscreen in 1992 — it's also referred as the first “smartphone,” though the term was not yet coined. A few competitors came out in the early '90s, but most mobile devices with touchscreens were more like PDAs