Week 2 Lecture.

This weeks lecture was all about the history of computing. Steven Stockwell conducted the lecture and took us through the basics of computing history. He talked u through the early inventors of computer technology, the founders of Apple and Microsoft, and discussed the differences between the Internet and the Web.

This is a brief time line of the History of computers:

1981 - "The IBM PC - Home Computer" from an 'Acorn' grows a personal computer revolution.
1981 - "MS DOS Computer Operating System" from 'quick & dirty' comes the operating system of the century.
1983 - "Apple Lisa Computer" the first home computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface).
1984 - "Apple Machintosh Computer" the more affordable home computer with a GUI.
1985 - "Microsoft Windows" Microsoft and Apple start competing with each other.Basically after this the computer's functions improved, adding more feature, revamping it's aesthetics and of course, continually becoming more user-friendly.
1966 - "ARPANet" was launched - a project the government requested which when successful would have two computers talking to each other. This was the first steps towards the internet.
1989 - "ARPANet" 10,000 hosts on the internet.
1990 - "World Wide Web (Web)" ARPANet ended and Tim Berners-Lee created Web.
1993 - "World Wide Web" Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year.2000 - "Wireless Internet" fixed wireless, high-speed internet is now seen as a viable alternative to copper and fibre optic lines placed in the ground.
2003 - "File Transfer Protocol" had become alot more known with 261 individuals being sued for illegally distributing copyrighted music. This is also known as peer-to-peer.
2005 - "Youtube" is launched.
2009 - "PRESENT" where most of society is smart enough to use social networking websites like myspace, facebook, and twitter without caring about the history of computers of the internet.

Date Accessed: 06/08/09
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

This is a brief timeline of the History of the Internet:

1957:The United States Department of Defense formed a small agency called ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) to develop military science and technology.
1961-1965:The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started to research sharing information in small, phone-linked networks. ARPA is one of their main sponsors.
1966: The first ARPANET plan is unveiled by Larry Roberts of MIT. Packet switching technology is getting off the ground, and small university networks are beginning to be developed.
1969:The Department of Defense commissions the fledgling ARPAnet for network research. The first official network nodes were UCLA, Standford Research Institute,UCSB, and the University of Utah. The first node to node message was sent from UCLA to SRI.
1971: more nodes join the network, bringing the total to 15. These new nodes include Harvard and NASA.
1973: ARPAnet goes global when the the University College of London and Norway's Royal Radar Establishment join up.
1974: Network intercommunication is becoming more sophisticated; data is now transmitted more quickly and efficiently with the design of TCP (Transmission Control Program).
1976: Unix is developed at AT and T; Queen Elizabeth sends out her first email message.
1979: USENET, the mother of all networked discussion groups, is developed.
1982: Internet technology protocols are developed, commonly known as TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol). This leads to one of the first definitions of an "internet" being a connected set of networks.
1984: Number of hosts is now up to 1000, with more being added every day.
1985: The first registered domain is Symbolics.com.
1987: Number of hosts breaks the 10,000 mark.
1988: First large-scale Internet worm affects thousands of Internet hosts.
1991: Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web.
1993: The World Wide Web's annual growth is now at a staggering 341,634%.
1994: ARPAnet celebrates 25th anniversary.
1995-1997: RealAudio introduces Internet streaming technology, dial-up systems emerge (America Online, Compuserve), the Internet backbone continues to be strengthened with the addition of MCI, Microsoft and Netscape fight for WWW browser supremacy, and there are now more than 70,000 mailing lists.
1998-present:The Internet continues to experience staggering growth. More people use the Internet to get connected to others, find information, conduct business, and share information than ever before in history.

Date Accessed: 21/08/09
http://websearch.about.com/od/whatistheinternet/a/historyinternet.htm