5 Big Bang Theory Of The Internet Aug 2009

5 Big Bang Theory of the Internet

Peter S. Vogel, Adjunct

Copyright, Peter S. Vogel, 2000-2008.

History of Computing

Abacus

Blaise Pascal

(1623 - 1662)

Charles Babbage

(1791-1871)

History of Computing

1801 Jacquard’s Loom

Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)

Programmed Card Woven Fabrics Loom

1st Big Bang >>>1890 Census

Dr. Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)

Punch Card Machine

EAM Card Programmer Calculator

EAM Plug Board

2nd Big Bang >> World War II

Invention of Computers

EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)

Computer Hardware

Punch Card

Tape

Disk

Auxiliary Storage

Network

Modem

CPU

Printer

CRT - Video

I/O {Input/Output}

Central Processing Unit

CPU

Operating Systems

*Windows 7

*Apple X

*Unix/Linux

*z/VM

Software Applications

*Office

*Quicken

*Oracle Database

4 Generations of Computers

Mainframes

Minicomputers

Microprocessor

Today’s

Computers

Servers

Personal Computers

PDAs

Altair

Sinclair

Tandy Radio Shack

TRS-80

Texas Instruments

TI 99/4A

Apple III

3rd Big Bang>> 1981 IBM’s

Personal Computer

Before IBM PC

Two Major Operating Systems

1. Apple Computer

2. CP/M Operating System owned by Digital

Research

Microsoft v. Digital Research

IBM Plan for the PC

Intel microprocessors

Control PC market by limiting OS to only IBM built machines using PC-DOS (Disk Operating System)

IBM lost control of the Basis Input/Output System (BIOS)

Clone market developed –Compaq, HP, etc

Microsoft OS ran on Clones in competition with IBM using a version then call MS-DOS

Xerox Star

Apple Lisa

Windows 2.1

Windows 3.1

Evolution of Windows

Xerox Research Labs created GUI (Graphic User

Interface) with mouse sold “Star”

Xerox licensed Apple the GUI

Apple licensed Microsoft GUI for Windows 2.1

Apple sued Microsoft for Windows 3.1 for

copyright infringement

9th Circuit held that GUI cannot be copyrighted

Computer

Networks

File Server(s) with Personal Computers attached

Local Area Networks – LAN

Wide Area Networks - WAN

4th Big Bang>>> 1995

Microsoft’s Browser

Internet Use in 1995

Client in Amsterdam

Former Distributor in SF at Trade Show

Injunctive Relief?

ARPANET (DARPA)(Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork,

later Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

1957 - Sputnik

1962 - $3m grant for time-sharing

Local Area Networks (LAN)

Personal Computer (PC)

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Browsers - Netscape v. Explorer

July 4, 1997

Mars -Pathfinder

Internet System Consortium

Cooperative Association for Internet

Data Analysis

Internet Traffic Report

Doing Business with Computers

Orders by paper or telephone

Keypunch

Computer generated reports

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

Specialized software

Compatible Systems

Relatively costly

5th Big Bang>>> 2002 WEB 2.0

President Obama – May 2009

Law of e-Commerce

Uniform Commercial Code

E-Sign/UETA

Intellectual Property

Jurisdiction & Venue

B2C & B2B

Antitrust

Search Engines

Publishing, Wikis, Blogs

Crime and Security

Spam and Spyware

Privacy

Social Networking