History of Computers

The Abacus

The First ldquoAutomaticrdquo Computer

Chinese Invented

first attempt at automating the counting process

The abacus is a machine which allows the user to remember his

current state of calculations while performing more complex

mathematical operation

Forefathers of Modern

Computers

Gottfried Leibniz

Wilhelm

Blaise Pascal

Charles Babbage

Invented one of the First

Mechanical Calculators (The

Pascaline)

Pascalrsquos Gear System

It worked like an odometer for counting

kilometers

Pascaline made for French currency

Invented the Binary System

The binary system which is the foundation of virtually all

modern computer architectures

Used internally by modern computers

Made up of 0s and 1s

Used for card readers electric circuits and vacuum tubes

Name J u l i e

ASCII 74 117 108 105 101

Binary 0 0 0 0 0

Code 1 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 1 1

0 1 0 0 0

1 0 1 1 0

0 1 1 0 1

1 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 1

Originated the concept of

a programmable

computer

Babbage is credited with inventing the

first mechanical computer called the

Difference Engine that eventually led to

more complex designs

Part of Babbages difference engine assembled after

his death by Babbages son using parts found in his

laboratory

In Babbagersquos time numerical tables were calculated by humans At

Cambridge he saw the high error-rate of human calculations and started

his lifersquos work of trying to calculate the tables mechanically

The London Science Museumrsquos Difference

Engine 2 built from Babbagersquos design

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

The Abacus

The First ldquoAutomaticrdquo Computer

Chinese Invented

first attempt at automating the counting process

The abacus is a machine which allows the user to remember his

current state of calculations while performing more complex

mathematical operation

Forefathers of Modern

Computers

Gottfried Leibniz

Wilhelm

Blaise Pascal

Charles Babbage

Invented one of the First

Mechanical Calculators (The

Pascaline)

Pascalrsquos Gear System

It worked like an odometer for counting

kilometers

Pascaline made for French currency

Invented the Binary System

The binary system which is the foundation of virtually all

modern computer architectures

Used internally by modern computers

Made up of 0s and 1s

Used for card readers electric circuits and vacuum tubes

Name J u l i e

ASCII 74 117 108 105 101

Binary 0 0 0 0 0

Code 1 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 1 1

0 1 0 0 0

1 0 1 1 0

0 1 1 0 1

1 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 1

Originated the concept of

a programmable

computer

Babbage is credited with inventing the

first mechanical computer called the

Difference Engine that eventually led to

more complex designs

Part of Babbages difference engine assembled after

his death by Babbages son using parts found in his

laboratory

In Babbagersquos time numerical tables were calculated by humans At

Cambridge he saw the high error-rate of human calculations and started

his lifersquos work of trying to calculate the tables mechanically

The London Science Museumrsquos Difference

Engine 2 built from Babbagersquos design

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Forefathers of Modern

Computers

Gottfried Leibniz

Wilhelm

Blaise Pascal

Charles Babbage

Invented one of the First

Mechanical Calculators (The

Pascaline)

Pascalrsquos Gear System

It worked like an odometer for counting

kilometers

Pascaline made for French currency

Invented the Binary System

The binary system which is the foundation of virtually all

modern computer architectures

Used internally by modern computers

Made up of 0s and 1s

Used for card readers electric circuits and vacuum tubes

Name J u l i e

ASCII 74 117 108 105 101

Binary 0 0 0 0 0

Code 1 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 1 1

0 1 0 0 0

1 0 1 1 0

0 1 1 0 1

1 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 1

Originated the concept of

a programmable

computer

Babbage is credited with inventing the

first mechanical computer called the

Difference Engine that eventually led to

more complex designs

Part of Babbages difference engine assembled after

his death by Babbages son using parts found in his

laboratory

In Babbagersquos time numerical tables were calculated by humans At

Cambridge he saw the high error-rate of human calculations and started

his lifersquos work of trying to calculate the tables mechanically

The London Science Museumrsquos Difference

Engine 2 built from Babbagersquos design

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Invented one of the First

Mechanical Calculators (The

Pascaline)

Pascalrsquos Gear System

It worked like an odometer for counting

kilometers

Pascaline made for French currency

Invented the Binary System

The binary system which is the foundation of virtually all

modern computer architectures

Used internally by modern computers

Made up of 0s and 1s

Used for card readers electric circuits and vacuum tubes

Name J u l i e

ASCII 74 117 108 105 101

Binary 0 0 0 0 0

Code 1 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 1 1

0 1 0 0 0

1 0 1 1 0

0 1 1 0 1

1 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 1

Originated the concept of

a programmable

computer

Babbage is credited with inventing the

first mechanical computer called the

Difference Engine that eventually led to

more complex designs

Part of Babbages difference engine assembled after

his death by Babbages son using parts found in his

laboratory

In Babbagersquos time numerical tables were calculated by humans At

Cambridge he saw the high error-rate of human calculations and started

his lifersquos work of trying to calculate the tables mechanically

The London Science Museumrsquos Difference

Engine 2 built from Babbagersquos design

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Invented the Binary System

The binary system which is the foundation of virtually all

modern computer architectures

Used internally by modern computers

Made up of 0s and 1s

Used for card readers electric circuits and vacuum tubes

Name J u l i e

ASCII 74 117 108 105 101

Binary 0 0 0 0 0

Code 1 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 1 1

0 1 0 0 0

1 0 1 1 0

0 1 1 0 1

1 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 1

Originated the concept of

a programmable

computer

Babbage is credited with inventing the

first mechanical computer called the

Difference Engine that eventually led to

more complex designs

Part of Babbages difference engine assembled after

his death by Babbages son using parts found in his

laboratory

In Babbagersquos time numerical tables were calculated by humans At

Cambridge he saw the high error-rate of human calculations and started

his lifersquos work of trying to calculate the tables mechanically

The London Science Museumrsquos Difference

Engine 2 built from Babbagersquos design

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Name J u l i e

ASCII 74 117 108 105 101

Binary 0 0 0 0 0

Code 1 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 1 1

0 1 0 0 0

1 0 1 1 0

0 1 1 0 1

1 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 1

Originated the concept of

a programmable

computer

Babbage is credited with inventing the

first mechanical computer called the

Difference Engine that eventually led to

more complex designs

Part of Babbages difference engine assembled after

his death by Babbages son using parts found in his

laboratory

In Babbagersquos time numerical tables were calculated by humans At

Cambridge he saw the high error-rate of human calculations and started

his lifersquos work of trying to calculate the tables mechanically

The London Science Museumrsquos Difference

Engine 2 built from Babbagersquos design

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Originated the concept of

a programmable

computer

Babbage is credited with inventing the

first mechanical computer called the

Difference Engine that eventually led to

more complex designs

Part of Babbages difference engine assembled after

his death by Babbages son using parts found in his

laboratory

In Babbagersquos time numerical tables were calculated by humans At

Cambridge he saw the high error-rate of human calculations and started

his lifersquos work of trying to calculate the tables mechanically

The London Science Museumrsquos Difference

Engine 2 built from Babbagersquos design

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

1st Generation

Vacuum Tubes 1939 - 1954

A device used to create an electrical signal

by controlling the movement of electrons

in a low-pressure space

Critical to the development of electronic

technology

Were bigger not as efficient or reliable

didnrsquot last as long more expensive than a

transistor

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

ENIAC ndash Electronic Numerical

Integrator And Computer

1946 The first general-purpose electronic

computer It was a digital computer

capable of being reprogrammed to

solve a full range of computing

problems

ENIAC was designed to calculate

artillery firing tables for the US

Armyrsquos Ballistic Research Lab but its

first use was in calculations for the

hydrogen bomb

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

bullIt used 5200 vacuum tubes bullWeight 29000 pounds (13 metric tons) bullConsumed 125 kW bullPerformance 1905 operations per second running on a 225 MHz clock bullThe machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length bullIt had an internal storage capacity of 1000 words or 12000 characters

UNIVAC 1 1951 ndash First Commercial Computer

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

2nd Generation

Transistor 1954-1959

Is commonly used to switch electronic signals

The fundamental building block of modern electronic devices and

is used in radio telephone computers and other electronic systems

Cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th

century and some consider it one of the most important

technological breakthroughs in human history

Can be packaged individually but most are found in integrated

circuits

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

3rd Generation

Integrated Circuit 1959 - 1971

First integrated circuit ndash Jack Kilby ndash Texas Instruments

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have

revolutionized the world of electronics

aka IC microcircuit microchip silicon chip or chip

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

ARPANET

1969 The ARPANET (Advanced

Research Projects Agency

Network) created by ARPA of

the United States Department of

Defense during the Cold War

was the worlds first operational

packet switching network and

the predecessor of the global

Internet

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

4th Generation

Microprocessor 1971 ndash 1991

incorporates most or all of

the functions of a central

processing unit (CPU) on a

single integrated circuit

reduced the cost of

processing capacity

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Microsoft ndash 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen approached Ed Roberts of MITS creators of

the new microcomputer and promised to deliver the BASIC

(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

interpreter

They did so and from the sale Microsoft was born

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Bill Gates

He is ranked consistently one of the worldrsquos wealthiest and the

wealthiest overall as of 2009 Net worth 58 billion as of 2008

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the

personal computer revolution

Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $106 million

and the homes assessed value of $1475 million

His 66000 sq ft estate has a 60-foot swimming

pool with an underwater music system as well as a

2500 sq ft gym and a 1000 sq ft dining room

Gates and his wife are very fond of F Scott Fitzgeraldrsquos The

Great Gatsby and inscribed in the library a sentence from

the last page of the novel He had come a long way to

this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so

close that he could hardly fail to grasp it

As of Oct 1 2008 he has donated 351 billion to

the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation which

focuses on Education Health Care amp Poverty

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Paul Allen

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio

Allen owns three professional sports teams the Seattle Seahawks the Portland Trail Blazers

and the Seattle Sounders FC ndash Major League Soccer that began playing in the 2009 season

According to Forbes Allen is the 32nd richest person in the world worth

about $105 billion

Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease in 1983 His cancer was successfully treated

however he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

BASIC- Beginnerrsquos All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (A programming language)

Developed by Kemeny and Kurtz in 1964 two mathematicians at Dartmouth Simple easy-to-understand syntax allowed students to quickly learn it Provided ease of programming and easier debugging than machine code or assembly

Creation of Microsoft

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

FORTRAN -FORmula TRANslator -Used for science math amp engineering

PASCAL -Named after Blaise Pascal forefather of modern computers -Disciplined approach to structure and data description

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

Data description stored separately from the program

C A general-purpose computer programming language very popular today for system programming

Other Programming Languages

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

First Apple Computer April 1 1976

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

First IBM PC (International Business Machines Person computer)

August 1981

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Cell Phones Available to Public in

1984

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

5th Generation

World Wide Web Internet 1991 amp Beyond

The Web can be used for Looking up information Shopping for books computers or CDrsquos Investigating or researching Downloading pictures games or other files

The Web (World Wide Web) was developed at CERN lab in Zurich Switzerland

Requires a client program (such as Firefox NetScape or Lynx) and a server (HTTP) to send information to the client

INTERNET

New form of communicating

2 things needed to view the internet

Internet connection

Browser

Many people use the words ldquointernetrdquo and ldquoworld wide webrdquo to mean the same thing The internet is NOT the web

The Internet is a massive network of networks It connects millions of computers together globally

The World Wide Web is a way of accessing information over the Internet It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet

Internet vs World Wide Web

Windows 31 ndash April 1992

DVD Technology ndash December 1995

USB Flash Drives - 2000

First iPod Release Date ndash October 2001

Microsoft Office 2007 Released January 30 2007

PCs Today

Fast

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

-Allows you to use a mouse

to control the computer

-Can run thousands of

different sets of instructions

(programs)

iphone came out ndash Summer 2007

ipad announced ndash Jan 2010

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

Windows 31 ndash April 1992

DVD Technology ndash December 1995

USB Flash Drives - 2000

First iPod Release Date ndash October 2001

Microsoft Office 2007 Released January 30 2007

PCs Today

Fast

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

-Allows you to use a mouse

to control the computer

-Can run thousands of

different sets of instructions

(programs)

iphone came out ndash Summer 2007

ipad announced ndash Jan 2010

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

DVD Technology ndash December 1995

USB Flash Drives - 2000

First iPod Release Date ndash October 2001

Microsoft Office 2007 Released January 30 2007

PCs Today

Fast

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

-Allows you to use a mouse

to control the computer

-Can run thousands of

different sets of instructions

(programs)

iphone came out ndash Summer 2007

ipad announced ndash Jan 2010

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

USB Flash Drives - 2000

First iPod Release Date ndash October 2001

Microsoft Office 2007 Released January 30 2007

PCs Today

Fast

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

-Allows you to use a mouse

to control the computer

-Can run thousands of

different sets of instructions

(programs)

iphone came out ndash Summer 2007

ipad announced ndash Jan 2010

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

First iPod Release Date ndash October 2001

Microsoft Office 2007 Released January 30 2007

PCs Today

Fast

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

-Allows you to use a mouse

to control the computer

-Can run thousands of

different sets of instructions

(programs)

iphone came out ndash Summer 2007

ipad announced ndash Jan 2010

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

Microsoft Office 2007 Released January 30 2007

PCs Today

Fast

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

-Allows you to use a mouse

to control the computer

-Can run thousands of

different sets of instructions

(programs)

iphone came out ndash Summer 2007

ipad announced ndash Jan 2010

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

iphone came out ndash Summer 2007

ipad announced ndash Jan 2010

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

Microsoft 2010 ndash came

out during 2010

2011 ndash Microsoft announces Office

for Mac 2011

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

Microsoft

Apple

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

The Future Computer

-Bring an ordinary

tabletop to life

-Touchscreen

Computers Cell Phones of

the Futureavi Coffee Table

Computers

Microsoft

Surface ndash The

Possibilities

Future Living -

2020 ndash 2030

Future Living

(2020 - 2030)

Modern Marvels

Technology Video

Review Name __________ 1 Why should we study the past present amp future of computers

2 Who invented the 1st mechanical computer

3 What is the name of the 1st Automatic Computer

4 Who invented the Binary System

5 What is the name of the 1st commercial computer

6 Who invented the 1st mechanical calculator

7 What computer was used in making calculations for the hydrogen bomb

8 ARPANET was a predecessor of what

9 What is the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet

10 1st Generation of computers used what

11 2nd Generation of computers used what

12 3rd Generation of computers used what

13 4th Generation of computers used what

14 What evolved during the 5th Generation of computers

15 What was your favorite part of the ldquoHistory of the Computerrdquo Unit