The Big Bang
Jan. 14th, 2007 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
paserbypIn 1623, Wilhelm Schickard built the first add/subtract machine. This was followed by the first machine that could perform the four basic mathematical operations, created by Von Leibniz in 1673. Then, over the next 300 years, a series of machines were invented to capture and process information.
In 1964 IBM introduced IBM 360 and in the early 1970s, Intel introduced the first microprocessor. A scant decade later, IBM introduced the PC, Microsoft gave us DOS, and Lotus the spreadsheet. Almost simultaneously, the LAN came to be as Bob Metcalfe scribbled Ethernet on a napkin in 1973. By the late eighties, what had been a project to survive a cold war attack became the public Internet, and just five years later the Web was born.
In 1964 IBM introduced IBM 360 and in the early 1970s, Intel introduced the first microprocessor. A scant decade later, IBM introduced the PC, Microsoft gave us DOS, and Lotus the spreadsheet. Almost simultaneously, the LAN came to be as Bob Metcalfe scribbled Ethernet on a napkin in 1973. By the late eighties, what had been a project to survive a cold war attack became the public Internet, and just five years later the Web was born.
