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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
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
