Transcript The History of Computers

The History of Computers and
the Internet
A short history lesson in the history of
the world of technology
Please think about the
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Innovation
Ideas
Passion
Monetization
SO WHAT
IS IT?
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1881 Herman Hollerith began
designing a machine to tabulate
census data
And chad was born
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1911 – IBM incorporated as the
Tabulating-Recording company
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1914 – Thomas Watson Sr. Joins
IBM
1915 – THINK
1924 – Name changed to IBM
1937 – IBM tasked for Social
Security
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1938 – BRL was formed
1942 - Mauchly and Eckert outline the
concept of an electronic computer
1944 – Construction begins on ENIAC
1945 – ENIAC final assembly
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17,468 vacuum tubes
Consumed 174,000 watts of power
It could multiply 333 ten-digit numbers /
second
http://ds.haverford.edu/bitbybit/bit-by-bitcontents/chapter-four/4-8-project-px-and-theeniac/
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1945 – Von Neuman devises an
internal memory system (stored
program)
1944 – IBM
Mark 1
created
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1947 AT&T introduced Mobile
Telephone Service (MTS) to about
5000 customers
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In today’s dollars the service was about
$200 / month and $5.00 / call
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1948 – Mauchly and Eckert build UNIVAC
1950 – Univac sold to Remington Rand
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1952 – IBM 701 was born
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The first real production
computer
1956 – Tom Watson Sr. dies and
installs his son as president
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1957 – FORTRAN created by a
team of programmers at IBM to
work on the IBM 704
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1957 – ARPA formed
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1959 – COBOL
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1960 – Radio Common Carrier
Service introduced
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1964 – IBM 360
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The big chance
Many models of a standardized
architecture
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1964 – Rand institute makes a
proposal for a network that would
operate in tatters
1966 – the transistor – actually the
integrated circuit
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Which got us here!
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Which got us here too
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1969 – ARPANET
1971 – ARPANET has 15 nodes with 23 hosts
1972 – ARPANET has 37 nodes
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1972 – ALOHANET CREATED BY
Norm Abramson (Stanford
Engineering Professor)
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CSMA / CD
Used low cost radio equipment
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1973 – Ethernet
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1973 – The handheld mobile phone
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1981 – The IBM PC
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1982 – ARPANET systems moved
from NCP to TCP/IP
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TCP / IP derived out of the ALOHANET
work
1983 – MILNET formed
1983-1985 – consolidation of UNIX
protocols
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About 200 network nodes
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1984 – NSF forms 56K link to the nation’s
supercomputer centers
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DEC LSI-11s ran Fuzzball routers (TCP / IP)
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1984 – Kremvax – the first spam
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax
http://www.godfatherof.nl/kremvax.html
1986 – Cisco ships the first router
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1987 – NSFNet
1987 – UUNET gets all of us on the network
(look at who owned this guys)
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1990’s – Privatization
1990 – Archie got files from the
network – a first library of resource
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No.com yet nor www
1991 – NREN funds DS3 backbone
1991 – Linux created by Linus
Torvalds
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1989 – The first outline of the web from
Tim Berners-Lee in CERN
1991 – The Web is born in Cern
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1992
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1993 – About 1.3 million nodes and
10000 networks
1993 – Mosaic released by NCSA
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1994
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1994 – VocalTec announced
Internet telephony and RealAudio
(streaming audio)
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CONVERGENCE
1996 – Toshiba releases the DVD
1998 - XML
1998 – USB was widely adopted
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2001
2003
2004
2004
– The first blogs
- Virtualization
– The iPod / and Facebook
– “The ERP hangover
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2007 – The Iphone
And iPhones you ask?
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2012 - About 17 billion Internet
connected devices
2012 – Transfer speeds reaching
186 Gbps (100,000 Blu-ray disks /
day)
AND
TODAY?
Facebook Users
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Current estimates at 1.1 billion
users
How Manu Users is That?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage
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WHAT IS BIG?
 Titan at ORNL (Cray XK7)
 20 petaflops
 ½ million processors
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BIG DATA and REAL TIME
DECISIONS
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Gapminder.org
http://hanayourworld.testdrivesap.com
/yw/ (use chrome)
SO IT IS
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It’s constantly changing and
evolving
It allows us to
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Communicate and share
Get work done