History of ICT

Early Beginnings

The history of ITC originations from humble beginning, which include the abacus. The abacus is thought to have been originally invented 3000 years before the birth of Christ. Revisions to its use / design continued for many years e.g.  500 BC a bead and wire version is developed in Egypt. Early versions of the calculator were gradually replacing this primitive method of mathematics. In 1624 Wilhelm schickard built the first four function calculator or clock at the University of Heidelberg, thus heralding a new era.

Development Timeline

§  1939 – Hewlett Packard founded

§  Hewlett Packard is founded David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett – Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage

§  There first product was the HP 2000A Audio Oscillator which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment  for engineers

§  Walt Disney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generations for the 1940 movie fantasia

§  1943 project whirlwind

§  Project whirlwind begins during world war II, the us navy approached the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews

§  The team first built a large analogy computer but found it inaccurate and inflexible. After designers saw a  demonstration of the ENIAC computers they decided on building a digital computers

1948 IBM SSEC

§  IBM’s a selective electronic calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company’s Manhattan headquarters.

1950 First commercial computer

§  Engineering research associate of built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer the company’s first customer was the US Navy. It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic, storage devices

§  Drums eventually stored as many as 40,000 words and retrieved any one of them in as little as five – thousands of a second

§  1962 – first interactive computer game

§  First played at MIT on DEC’s PDP-1 the large scope display featured interactive, shoot em-up graphics that inspired future video games

§  Duelling players fired at each other’s spaceships and used early versions of joysticks to manipulate away from the central gravitational force of a sun as well as from the enemy ship

1971 the first e-mail sent

§  The first e-mail is sent Ray Tomlinson of the research firm bolt, Breanek and Newman sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project

§  Tomlinson, who is credited with being the one to decide on the” @” sign for use in e-mail sent his message over a military network called Appanet

§  When asked to describe the contents  of the first e-mail Tomlison said it was something like “QWERTYUIOP”

1988 first computer virus

§  Robert Morris worm flooded the Appanet

§  23 year old Morris, the son of a computer security expert for the National security Agency, sent a non-destructive worm through the internet causing problems for about 6,000 of the 60,000 hosts linked to the network

§  Morris was sentence to the years of probation , 400 hours of community service and a fine of $10,050

1990 World Wide Web is born

§  The World Wide Web (WWW) was born when Tim Berners-lee, a researcher at CERN developed Hypertext Mark-up language

§  HTML, as it is commonly known allowed the internet to expand into the (WWW), using specification he developed such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and HTTP (Hyper Tex Transfer Protocol)

§  A browser, such as Netscape or Microsoft internet explorer follows links and sends a query to a server allowing user to view a sight

2004 Facebook

§  Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computers science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovirtz and Chris Hughes

§  As of July 2011 facebook has more than 800 million active users and a value of around 41 billion US dollars