In this weeks lesson we learned about the creation of the internet and the history of the creation.
Dr Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator. He oversaw government mobilization of scientific research during the second World War. He was known well in the technology industry for being a contribution and inventor of the analog computers. This analog computer could actually solve different equations with up to 19 variables, this could take a couple days of setup for the computer to answer the equation. The computer actually took up a whole room.
Bush continued with his inventions and years later Bush was a contributor to the creation of the nuclear bomb that would eventually drop be one of the bombs to drop in Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
Douglas was an American inventor whose work began in the 1950s, which led to him being the creator of the computer mouse. He actually read a book published by Dr Bush who inspired him to create the mouse. After the invention of the first computer, he was curious about the usability and interaction of it, which would eventually lead to him creating the mouse. The concept of the mouse that was created in 1960s is still very similar to what it is now. Below is what the mouse looked like when first invented.
The Defence Advanced Research Agency’s mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. This was important for the advancements of the internet as DARPA research played a central role in launching the information revolution, including furthering much of the conceptual basis for today's internet – a ubiquitous, global network for sharing digital resources among geographically separated computers.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the pioneering network for creating the internet’s first public packet switched computer network. This was the first Internet message processor that allowed two computers to send a message between them. Many of the protocols used by computer networks today were developed for ARPANET.
Tim was a British computer scientist, who is famously known for the creation of the World Wide Web and the information management protocol in 1989. He created the internet using HTML, HTTP and web pages which made the WWW.