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The Conquering of the World — 19th century More than two centuries elapsed between introducing the first mechanical calculator (Schickard’s Rechenuhr […]
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Way back in 1730, the French Academy of Sciences — one of the leading authorities on scientific and mathematical […]
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J. C. R. Licklider IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960 Summary Man-computer symbiosis is an expected […]
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: Maturing of the Net In this section, we will present some people and events, who established the foundations of […]
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Internet conquers the world Why did the Internet become such a ubiquitous technology and conquer the world? Which are the “killer” […]
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First chat program of Murray Turoff In 1971 the Ph.D. in Physics Murray Turoff (born in San Francisco, on February […]
What is TCP/IP Protocol Suite: Complete Explanation Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol suite, shortly known as TCP/IP Protocol Suite , is […]
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First Computer Virus History The First Computer Virus, Creeper, was named after a Scooby-Doo cartoon show character. Creeper was written […]
The First E-mail Message of Ray Tomlinson No doubt, there were other people, who developed similar programs before Tomlinson. SDC’s […]
The World Wide Web of Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee used to say: “I just had to take the hypertext idea […]
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Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg — First Digital Library At the beginning of the 1970s came a time, which was […]
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When on 4th of October, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I (a 70 kgs bleeping sphere the size of a […]
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: What is Memex: Complete Explanation The Memex was a conceptual system created by Vannevar Bush for storing data and retrieving […]
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What Is World Wide Web Wanderer?: Explained The brilliant idea of the World Wide Web was devised in the spring […]
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4 Facts About NCSA Mosaic Internet Web Browser What Is NCSA Mosaic Internet Web Browser: Explained The very first web browser was […]
File sharing and real-time communication are critical in unifying today’s workforce. From live chats to video conferencing, there is […]
The History of BitTorrent: What To Know BitTorrent was a protocol created by Bram Cohen in 2001 to share large […]
While most exclusively use Google today, some will remember a time when a whole plethora of different internet search […]
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: Automata is the study and understanding of abstract machines. Automata deals with logical computation, with the basic theories regarding […]
3 Facts about Leonardo Torres’s Chess Machine Leonardo Torres’s Chess Machine History In the beginning of 1910, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo commenced […]
6 Facts about the Steam Man Steam Man History Zadoc Dederick, born August 8, 1849, worked for the patent attorney and was […]
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: Artificial Intelligence has come a long way and achieved significant milestones over the years. The history of AI and […]
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: Athanasius Kircher The prominent German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) (see biography of Athanasius Kircher) was a famous 17th-century scholar, […]
Euphonia The German Joseph Faber, born around 1800 in Freiburg Breisgau, near Schwarzwald, came at a young age to Vienna, […]
