The Internet can be a rich source of information about the history of computers. In this project, you use the Internet to review the history of computers, software, and the Internet. You will need a computer that has access to the Internet.
To learn more about the history of computers:
1. Open a Web browser, such as Windows Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
2. Point your browser to http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/index.page, and press Enter (Intel-type computers) or return (for Macintosh).
3. Determine the answers to the following:
a. Which three PCs were released in 1977?
b. What was the first non-kit PC developed in 1973?
c. What important data storage medium was released in 1983?
d. What does ASCII stand for, and in what year did it come out?
e. What was the name of the first fully transistorized computer developed in 1955?
f. What input and output devices were used by the Manchester Mark I computer?
g. In what year was the World Wide Web born via the development of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and who developed HTML?
4. Visit the Hobbes’ Internet Timeline 10 (Hobbes’s Internet Timeline Copyright © 1993– 2010 by Robert H. Zakon) by accessing the website www.zakon.org/robert/internet/ timeline, and determine the answers to the following:
a. BITNET, one of the predecessors of the Internet was launched in 1981. What does BITNET stand for?
b. What worm struck the Internet in 2001?
c. What food could you order through the Internet in 1994?
d. What famous person sent an e-mail in 1976?
e. What country offered Internet voting for local elections in 2005?
f. In 2008 what kind of network did NASA test?
5. Close your Internet browser
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