Computers

ENIAC1946  

AVIDAC1946  

IBM´s SSEC1948

 

Wilkes with the EDSAC1949  

Manchester Mark I

1949  

ERA 1101 drum memory1950  

SEAC1950  

SWAC1950  

Pilot ACE

1950  

MIT Whirlwind

1951  

LEO1951  

UNIVAC I

1951  

von Neumann´s IAS1952  

IBM 7011953  

IBM 6501954  

MIT TX01956  

SAGE operator station

1958  

1958  

1959  

DEC PDP-11960

 

IBM 14011961  

Clark with LINC-81962  

IBM System/3601964  

CDC 6600

1964 

DEC PDP-81965 

ILLIAC IV

1966  

HP-21151966  

Ed deCastro and Nova1968  

Apollo Guidance Computer1968  

Kenbak-11971  

HP-351972  

TV Typewriter1973  

Micral1973  

Xerox Alto1974  

Scelbi 8H1974

 

MITS Altair

1975  

Felsenstein´s VDM1975  

Tandem-161975  

Apple I

1976  

Cray I

1976  

Commodore PET1977  

Apple II1977  

TRS-80

1977  

VAX 11/7801978  

1981  

Osborne I

1981  

Apollo DN1001981  

1982  

1983  

Compaq PC clone1983  

Apple Macintosh

1984  

IBM PC Jr.1984

 

Connection Machine

1986  

1986  

IBM PS/21987  

NeXT

1988

 

1990

Berners-Lee proposal

Networks  The World Wide Web was born when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language. HTML, as it is commonly known, allowed the Internet to expand into the World Wide Web, using specifications he developed such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). A browser, such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer, follows links and sends a query to a server, allowing a user to view a site.

Berners-Lee based the World Wide Web on Enquire, a hypertext system he had developed for himself, with the aim of allowing people to work together by combining their knowledge in a global web of hypertext documents. With this idea in mind, Berners-Lee designed the first World Wide Web server and browser — available to the general public in 1991. Berners-Lee founded the W3 Consortium, which coordinates World Wide Web development.