History of the Computer and the Internet
Charles Babbage was the inventor of the first computer. Alan Turning was a major developer of the computer. He was the the man to first use the computer to break the Germans Enigma Codes. IBM was the group to first commercially produce computers in the 1950's. in the 70's XEROS developed the mouse and the Graphical User Interface. 1975 the first Personal Computer (PC) was released. Then Steve Jobs and Steve Woz started Apple, Bill Gates teamed up with IBM and Linus began which was free software that anyone could take part in and develop.
The Internet can be described as a network of networks. developed by the US Federal Networking council and RAND in 1995. This was with thoughts of the nuclear war in mind the idea being that because there was no center they would never loose all their information. The Internet works using 'packet switching' - breaking the information down to send elsewhere where it reforms. In the 1990's people began communicating through computers using the Internet. Karl Popper researched the idea of cyberspace.
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