Father of the internet – Tim Burners-Lee January 27, 2009
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You are using the internet at this very moment, you know that if you want any information about anything the web will be there. But the internet wasn’t always here.
Do you know who invented the internet?
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee born on the 8 June 1955 in London, UK was the person to create the world wide web. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the main international standards organization for the internet.
With the number of people using the web passing 1 Billion you could say that he is the most important person in our computing lives today. If it were not for Tim Burners-Lee this blog will not exist, nor would amazon, ebay or facebook. He even ranked joint first in the Telegraph’s list of 100 greatest living geniuses.
Sir Tim Burners-Lee started the web and now runs it and may control the future of the internet for years to come.
IBM’s Past January 26, 2009
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A the start of computers before Dell and Sony. IBM was the big company in the computer world. They were the starting point of microsoft. They invented the original floppy disk in 1967 and the first 8″ floppy disk in 1967. They ware also the first company to make a personal computer.
In 1979 the worlds first ‘portable computer’ was born from IBM. It was called the “IBM 5100 Portable”. Portable may not be the right word by our standards. It weighed over 22 KG and only had a credit card sized screen. It was only ‘portable’ in the fact that it had a keyboard, screen, storage and circuit boards all in one box. It had a 16K – 64K of main memory and costed up to £20.000!
No matter how stupidly big it is or how high the price is. IBM and its 5100 portable changed future of computing. being the begining of true portability and led up to the laptop that you may be useing at the moment.
IBM now no longer sells directly to the public after lenovo took over its computing range. But it is still there and it may still have something in it, yet to come.
A year of tech December 23, 2008
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The world of tech has changed over the last year but by how much? Yes its another look over the year.
Microsoft Vs Yahoo
Yes Microsoft and Yahoo have been at war with each other refusing to agree and only managed in damaging each other. Yahoos CEO decided to leave Yahoo. However with both company’s in pieces Google has now grown even quicker than before. Plus with Google going into competition with microsoft with both Google Chrome and Google android, Steve Balmer better watch out
Format war
Sony with its new Blu-Ray beat Toshiba’s HD-DVD it the format war. With its more catchy name and larger capacity you could say that Blu-Ray should have won. However Microsoft who was a big supporter of HD-DVD are yet to put a Blu-Ray drive in its ever popular XBox 360’s and so maybe 2009 will be when Microsoft finally gives up on it for good.
Apple
Apple seems to get itself a mention in most of these look over the year but i don’t think they have done anything special all year. At the beginning of the year we saw the IPhone 3G which was pretty similar to the first one apart from as the name would suggest had 3G. They also got into a lot of trouble with its AD’s on several occasions with them claiming things that are impossible. More recently we heard that next year will be the last Mac World event in January and Steve Jobs won’t even be part of it. But why as is normally the case with apple we will just have to wait.
One thing to notice is that Microsoft appear in 2/3 of these sections of the year and none of them are good, maybe 2009 will be the end of Microsoft’s strong grip on the web browser, mobile devices, Web mail, Games console or maybe even the Operating system market to Linux, apple and just maybe google’s open source OS.
The mouse December 15, 2008
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Here is what I just found on the internet and you may be useing a simmiler thing because this is actualy a computer mouse.
On the 9th of December 1968 this was unveiled along with hyperlinks and navigable windows of which we are still using to this day and will do doubt still be using it in another 40 years from now.
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