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Timeline of the wonderful technology that led to and advanced the internet…
Timeline of the wonderful technology that led to and advanced the internet and computer technology that we understand and use today.
Jacquard Loom - Invented in 1804 by Joseph Jacquard. It was a device that could be attached to a power loom that allowed for simple production of complex patterns. The patterned punching system that was used in the Jacquard loom would lead to the use of similarly styled punched cards that have been used in current presidential ballots.
IBM - founded in 1911 the company was originally a lead producer of punch card tabulator machines. The company would later be the producer of the first commercially successful general-purpose computer. The International Business Machines company was the first to use many of the aspects that make our computers what they are today.
The Turing Machine - Alan Turing created the mathematical model of a machine that could compute and complete the task that is imputed in it. Turing unknowingly created the idea of what computers would become. Beyond that he would be the first to hypothesize that computers would be able to think for themselves eventually.
J.V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry would create the first automatic electronic digital computer. This would be the beginning of the long journey that the computer would make. It however lack certain features that Turing had designed so it was not yet complete.
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was the first electronic general purpose computer. This computer would be Turing complete. It's largely known as the first general purpose computer.
COBOL and FORTRAN - They were the first English and ma thematic programming languages that were widely adopted. These languages allowed for coding to be much more accessible and cheaper.
Integrated circuit - Commonly known as a chip or microchip the integrated circuit was a concept that many worked on separately until it became a completed concept in the 1960's. The advancement of these circuits is what allowed computers to transform from the machines that filled entire rooms to the small laptops that can be smaller than a text book.
GUI - a form of user interface that allows people using electronic devices to use and interact with graphical icons and visual indicators. This allowed many products to be popular with a larger audience even if the design values were lacking.
DRAM - This random access memory stores each piece of data independently within an integrated circuit. This would become the main memory used in modern computers.
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