{"id":135,"date":"2006-10-27T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T18:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/135-the-computer-is-born-a-factual-timeline"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:02:15","slug":"the-computer-is-born-a-factual-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/135-the-computer-is-born-a-factual-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computer Is Born: A Factual Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/computer.jpg\" alt=\"Computer\" title=\"Computer\" \/>In the last 30 years, the world has experienced an infusion of technology all stemming from the inception of the computer. Where were you when all this was happening?<\/p>\n<p>1965 \u00a0The first network experiment was directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln\u00a0Lab, two computers talked to each other using packet-switching technology.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n1972 \u00a0The first basic e-mail programs was written by Ray Tomlinson.<\/p>\n<p>1973 \u00a0First international web connections were made to the ARPANET: University College of \u00a0London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n1976 \u00a0The APPLE computer was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.<\/p>\n<p>1976 \u00a0Queen Elizabeth II sends out an email.<\/p>\n<p>1981 \u00a0IBM announces its first personal computer.<\/p>\n<p>1981 \u00a0Microsoft creates the DOS operating system.<\/p>\n<p>1985 \u00a0Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain.<\/p>\n<p>1987 \u00a025 million PCs sold in the US.<\/p>\n<p>1989 \u00a0McAfee Associates is founded; the anti-virus software was available for free.<\/p>\n<p>1992\u00a0The term &#8220;surfing the internet&#8221; is fashioned by Jean Armour Polly.<\/p>\n<p>1993 \u00a0The Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year.<\/p>\n<p>1996\u00a0The domain name tv.com sold to CNET for $15,000.<\/p>\n<p>1997 \u00a0Business.com sold for $150,000<\/p>\n<p>1995 \u00a0Windows 95 released and new, improved versions created thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>2005\u00a0Most schools and households house a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 30 years, the world has experienced an infusion of technology all stemming from the inception of the computer. Where were you when all this was happening? 1965 \u00a0The first network experiment was directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln\u00a0Lab, two computers talked to each other using packet-switching technology. \u00a0 1972 \u00a0The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}