ARPANET, which eventually becomes
the Internet, goes online with 4 nodes.
Department of Defense sponsors ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) to
build a robust interconnected network of
geographically distant computers
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• Smart clothing
• Brain-powered prosthesis
• Gesture recognition
• Quantum computers
• The Singularity?
iPhone
Tron Movie
iPhone by Apple
revolutionizes touch-screen
interfaces for mobile devices
Disney’s Tron, a movie about
the fictional world inside a
computer, is the first major film
to use extensive
3D computer graphics
IBM’s Watson
World Wide Web
UNIX
UNIX operating
system developed
at Bell
Laboratories by Ken
Thompson, Dennis
Ritchie, Brian Ker-
nighan, and others.
Re-written
in 1972 using the
C programming
language
Online Social Networks
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
develops the WWW, a global
web of interconnected
documents, which runs on top
of the Internet
Apple II Personal
Computer
Apple II, designed primarily
by Steve Wozniak, was the first
highly successful, massproduced
personal computers (PCs)
Price: $1300 for model with 4
KB RAM, $2600 for 48 KB RAM
model
IBM’s Watson defeats veteran
Jeopardy champs
Online social networks (and
sharing too much trivial infor-
mation) first became popular in
the early 2000s
Google Glass
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Spam!
iPad
Gary Thuerk, an aggressive
DEC marketer, attempted to
send the first commercial
spam message to every
Arpanet address on the west
coast (393 recipients)
iPad by Apple reinvigorates the tablet
computing market
Google
Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin
drop out of Stanford to create Google, a Web
search engine which uses their novel PageRank
algorithm to order search engine results Google
originated from a misspelling of googol which is
1 followed by 100 zeros
Microprocessor Apple’s Macintosh
Microprocessor: entire CPU fits on a single chip.
Three companies developed the microprocessor
independently at the same time: Texas Instr
ments, Intel, and Garrett AiResearch Apple Computers (Steve Jobs and Steve Woz-
niak) developed the Macintosh which
popularized the graphical user interface (GUI)
Multi-core Processors
Google’s Driverless Car
PCs with dual core CPUs hit the market. Mul-
ti-core CPUs have multiple processors on
a single chip, and they allow more throughput
with a lower processor speed, thus using
less power
Microsoft Windows
IBM Personal Computer
IBM develops a PC with an Intel microprocessor and Microsoft’s DOS
operating system
Price started at $1,565
300,000 sold in 1981;
3,274,000 sold in 1982
Microsoft (Bill Gates) releases
Windows 3.1 , the first version
of Windows that was widely
successful
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