History Of ICT

History of ICT

The history of ICT originates from humble beginnings, 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 continues for many years e.g. 500 BC a bead and wire version is developed ion Egypt. Early versions of the calculator were gradually replacing this primitive method og mathematics. In 1624 Wilhelm schickare built the first four function calculator-clock at the University of Heidelberg, thus heralding a new era.

Development timeline

• 1939-Hewlett Packard founded, David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, California.
• Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of equipment for engineers.
• Walt Dysney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effect generators for the 1940 movie Fantasia.
• 1943- Project Whirlwind
• Project Whirlwind begins. During World War II, The U.S navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build a flight simulator to train bomber crews.
• The team first built a large analog computer, but found it inaccurate and inflexible. After designers saw a demonstration of the ENIAC computer, they decided on building a digital computer
• 1948 IBM’s selective sequence electronic calculator computed scientific data in public display near the companies Manhattan headquarters.
• 1950-First commercial computer, Engieneering Research Associates builds the ERA1101 the frist commercially produced computer, the companies first customer was the U.S Navy.
• 1962-the first interactive computer game, Mit students create spacewar considered the first interactive computer game, the large scope display featured interactive shoot’em- up graphics that inspired future video games.
• 1971-First Email sent. Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman sent the first email when he was supposed to be working on a different project.
• 1988- First computer virus, Robert Morris’s worm fooded the ARPANET, 23 year oldMorris, the son of a computer security expert for the National Security Agency, sent a non destructive worm through the internet causing problems for about 6000 of the 60,000 hosts linked to the network.
• 1990- World Wide Web is born, Ti Berners Lee, a reswervher at CERN developed hypertext mark up language, HTML, as it is commonly knows allowed to internet to expand in the world wide web using specifications he developed such as URL and HTTP.
• 2004- Facebool, a social networking service and websight is launched February.

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