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Gadgetell On Alan Turing’s birthday, we look back at great moments in technology Posted June 23, 2009 at 09:19 PM by Jodie Andrefski Section: C omputers, Gadgets / Other, Web, Web 2.0, Web Apps, Web Browsers, Websites, Online Music/Video, Google
Remember your first time? No, not that one you pervert. Your first time on the Internet or even using a computer. After all the years, through all the changes, it began with what was never even meant to be a computer by a brilliant man. Today, we tip our hats to Mr. Alan Turing on his birthday. Modern computing would not be what it is without him. Let’s take a look back at some great leaps in technology. My own random access memories I didn’t grow up working on computers, which is kind of odd since my brother went into that field and I now find myself surrounding by tech and tech folks. I remember first playing around on an old Apple and eventually working with PCs using DOS prompt. I remember when it seemed like the Internet was old hat to this one friend of mine who was way ahead of all things geek, and I was totally amazed. I knew this was something I had to play with and use myself. Now, kids are online from the womb. gadgetell.com/…/on-alan-turing-birthd…
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In the grand scheme of things, in such a short time, there have been so many leaps in technology. How far we have come. A computer comes out, and a year later it is a dinosaur. What is fast and powerful and gives you bragging rights of king geek one day, six months later you look old school. Taking a look at some great moments in technology June 23,1912: Alan Turing was born. If you have ever sat down at a computer and tapped at a keyboard, you have this man to thank. He is pretty much the father of computer science. He was amazingly influential in the creation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with his Turing machine. It was never meant to be a computer per se, but instead, a thought experiment showing the limits of mechanical computation. Oh how far you can go, baby. August 6, 1991: Tim Berners Lee releases web software Tim Berners Lee formally introduced his world wide web project to the world on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. In his post he said the project “aims to allow links to be made to any detrmation [sic] anywhere.” It did this by using hypertext which is a method for linking between different documents. Although invented many years earlier, Mr. Berners Lees invention joined together hypertext with the Internet. He also made available all of the files necessary for people to replicate his invention. And so it begins. November, 1992: There are 26 web servers online 26. That’s all. Nowadays, you could run 26 web servers using virtual machines. All the data available in the world in just 26 web servers. Think about how small hard drives were in 1992. Then remember those ohso-fantastic modems. In November, 1993: The first webcam goes online watching a coffee pot. Yep, coffee and technology go together like peanut butter and jelly. A webcam was set up by a group of computer scientists at Cambridge University. Frustrated at having to navigate several flights of stairs in search of coffee only to find the pot empty, the academics installed a webcam to monitor the brew. February, 1994: The precursor to Yahoo written by two US students goes online Yahoo was first started by Stanford University students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It was first called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” and featured a hierarchical directory of other sites. It was renamed Yahoo soon after. The name stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. August, 1995: There are now 18957 websites online September, 1998: Google opens its first office in a garage in California The mega-search giant first started out as a research project by two postgraduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. They designed a search engine to analyze the relationships between websites to rank their importance. Up until September 1997, the search engine used the Stanford University website with the domain google.stanford.edu. And the kicker? The name is a misspelling of the word googol. May, 1999: A student in Boston named Shawn Fanning founds Napster And so widespread online pirating begins. Napster was the first widely used gadgetell.com/…/on-alan-turing-birthd…
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P2P file sharing service. Fanning wrote the program at college so he and his friends could find and share mp3 files. The recording industry noticed, shut it down, and a legal version launched in summer of 2001. August, 2000: Nearly 20 million websites online April 28, 2003: Apples iTunes music download service launches A crazy idea sprouts out of Cupertino. Make digital music available at low prices. Maybe people will actually buy it. This could cut down on piracy. A lot of companies thought Apple was crazy. We all know how this turned out. November 9, 2004: Mozilla Firefox web browser launched February, 2005: YouTube.com goes online 2006: There are approximately 92615362 websites online 2007: Apple launches the original iPhone 2009: The number of websites changes by the minute. Good luck keeping up. Now, there’s no way we could do an exhaustive list of all the great moments in technology. Do you have a favorite moment on or off this list? Well, sound off in the comments.
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Gadgetell On Alan Turing’s birthday, we look back at great moments in technology Posted June 23, 2009 at 09:19 PM by Jodie Andrefski Section: C omputers, Gadgets / Other, Web, Web 2.0, Web Apps, Web Browsers, Websites, Online Music/Video, Google
Remember your first time? No, not that one you pervert. Your first time on the Internet or even using a computer. After all the years, through all the changes, it began with what was never even meant to be a computer by a brilliant man. Today, we tip our hats to Mr. Alan Turing on his birthday. Modern computing would not be what it is without him. Let’s take a look back at some great leaps in technology. My own random access memories I didn’t grow up working on computers, which is kind of odd since my brother went into that field and I now find myself surrounding by tech and tech folks. I remember first playing around on an old Apple and eventually working with PCs using DOS prompt. I remember when it seemed like the Internet was old hat to this one friend of mine who was way ahead of all things geek, and I was totally amazed. I knew this was something I had to play with and use myself. Now, kids are online from the womb. gadgetell.com/…/on-alan-turing-birthd…
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2009-06-25
http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/print/…
In the grand scheme of things, in such a short time, there have been so many leaps in technology. How far we have come. A computer comes out, and a year later it is a dinosaur. What is fast and powerful and gives you bragging rights of king geek one day, six months later you look old school. Taking a look at some great moments in technology June 23,1912: Alan Turing was born. If you have ever sat down at a computer and tapped at a keyboard, you have this man to thank. He is pretty much the father of computer science. He was amazingly influential in the creation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with his Turing machine. It was never meant to be a computer per se, but instead, a thought experiment showing the limits of mechanical computation. Oh how far you can go, baby. August 6, 1991: Tim Berners Lee releases web software Tim Berners Lee formally introduced his world wide web project to the world on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. In his post he said the project “aims to allow links to be made to any detrmation [sic] anywhere.” It did this by using hypertext which is a method for linking between different documents. Although invented many years earlier, Mr. Berners Lees invention joined together hypertext with the Internet. He also made available all of the files necessary for people to replicate his invention. And so it begins. November, 1992: There are 26 web servers online 26. That’s all. Nowadays, you could run 26 web servers using virtual machines. All the data available in the world in just 26 web servers. Think about how small hard drives were in 1992. Then remember those ohso-fantastic modems. In November, 1993: The first webcam goes online watching a coffee pot. Yep, coffee and technology go together like peanut butter and jelly. A webcam was set up by a group of computer scientists at Cambridge University. Frustrated at having to navigate several flights of stairs in search of coffee only to find the pot empty, the academics installed a webcam to monitor the brew. February, 1994: The precursor to Yahoo written by two US students goes online Yahoo was first started by Stanford University students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It was first called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” and featured a hierarchical directory of other sites. It was renamed Yahoo soon after. The name stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. August, 1995: There are now 18957 websites online September, 1998: Google opens its first office in a garage in California The mega-search giant first started out as a research project by two postgraduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. They designed a search engine to analyze the relationships between websites to rank their importance. Up until September 1997, the search engine used the Stanford University website with the domain google.stanford.edu. And the kicker? The name is a misspelling of the word googol. May, 1999: A student in Boston named Shawn Fanning founds Napster And so widespread online pirating begins. Napster was the first widely used gadgetell.com/…/on-alan-turing-birthd…
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P2P file sharing service. Fanning wrote the program at college so he and his friends could find and share mp3 files. The recording industry noticed, shut it down, and a legal version launched in summer of 2001. August, 2000: Nearly 20 million websites online April 28, 2003: Apples iTunes music download service launches A crazy idea sprouts out of Cupertino. Make digital music available at low prices. Maybe people will actually buy it. This could cut down on piracy. A lot of companies thought Apple was crazy. We all know how this turned out. November 9, 2004: Mozilla Firefox web browser launched February, 2005: YouTube.com goes online 2006: There are approximately 92615362 websites online 2007: Apple launches the original iPhone 2009: The number of websites changes by the minute. Good luck keeping up. Now, there’s no way we could do an exhaustive list of all the great moments in technology. Do you have a favorite moment on or off this list? Well, sound off in the comments.
Tags: alan turing, google, internet, technology changes, web, websites, yahoo URL: http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/on-alan-turing-birthday-we-look-back-at-great-moments-intechnology/
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