Response to lecture week 3.

"A Short History of Computing and the Internet".

This week the lecture ws about the history of computers and the internet. In this 50 min lecture we got to learn some new things, and some I did know from before. I think this i s a very interesting topic, and it is a topic that we can discuss for ages.

If we start to look at networking, there was a time before computers. Back in the old days the networking went through books. And the development from that stage until now is an interesting journey. If we take a look at the digital technology, we can say that old cash registers is a form of a old digital technology, because it could calculate. The mechanical computer devices did rulled before we had digital computers. If we look at the history there is always more technology invented after a war. During world war 2, they used several communication forms and technologies to delete the enemy and keep things a secret. These technologies gets more developed after the war and becomes the seeds for todays computers, internet and technology.
Radio = radar = computers!

The first Pc was released in 1975. This was a quite large computer, and did weigh a lot. The biggest problem with this computer was that it didn`t hav eany language. And this issue made people like Bill Gates excited. He dropped out of school and started ineventing a language for the Altair called BASIC, and to make people buy this program he started a little company, actually in his garage, called Microsoft! And more and more companies transferd into the PC world!

More and more people, or computer "nerds" as we call them, started exchange ideas. And this led to the start of the Apple. To men, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, produced the Apple 1. They made this product for people who were more interested in the software and the possibilities then the PC hardware. These computers became a hit, and the guys sold a lot of it. So when Steve Jobs where 25 years old, he wa worth $100 million dollars!

Today the computers/Mac is much faster, and everything goes online. The internet is what controls the world. There is computers everywhere. The development of the internet started after the Sputnik 1 was invented by the russians. the US feared that they would take over, so they inevnted the internet from the late 1950s to the early 1970s in the US, by a group of people. And as many think, it was not Al Gore who invented the internet.

I think this was a really interesting and exciting lecture, and I can hardly stop writing about this topic. I think that it is really interesting to find out who made the internet, when was invented, and everything about the computers development.