Well in what is fast becoming my 'favourite' day of the week (but really, having to drive 45 mins for ONE lecture at 8AM!!!), Steven Stockwell took the lecture and we learnt all about the history of computers and the internet.
It all started with a man named Charles Babbage, who created the 'Difference Engine' which was used to calculate and print mathematical tables. Ada Byron, interpretting another of Babbage's inventions came to be known as the first computer programmer. Though things really started to take off with Alan Turing when he created a computer able to break German 'Enigma' codes in the war.
IBM were the official company to commercially produce computers in the 1950s. From then came along Xerox PARC in the early 1970s and in 1975 the first PC computer was born. Around this time Bill Gates created a little company in his garage called Microsoft. Two computer nerds Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak joined forces to create Apple and within a couple of years were rich enough to never have to work again.
In 1980 IBM and Microsoft become associated and gave Apple a bit of competition. Around this time when Apple's popularity was sliding Steve Jobs quit and didn't return until the late 90's, resurrecting Apple's position in the computer world.
IBM were the official company to commercially produce computers in the 1950s. From then came along Xerox PARC in the early 1970s and in 1975 the first PC computer was born. Around this time Bill Gates created a little company in his garage called Microsoft. Two computer nerds Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak joined forces to create Apple and within a couple of years were rich enough to never have to work again.
In 1980 IBM and Microsoft become associated and gave Apple a bit of competition. Around this time when Apple's popularity was sliding Steve Jobs quit and didn't return until the late 90's, resurrecting Apple's position in the computer world.
We also learnt in the lecture about the difference between the internet, the web and cyberspace and a brief history of how the internet began.
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