History of the Internet, Internet for Historians

Chapter One: The Origins and Growth of The Internet and the World Wide Web

The Basic History of the growth of Computers from 1849 to 1991

Morse’s telegraph (1849)

Samuel Morse's invention in 1844 using electronic impulses, key and a special codes that sequences of pulses to letters of the alphabet.

Hollerith’s Tabulating machine

The next step is to link this particular invention

Differential Analyzer

Harvard Mark I

The Collossus (1944 rebuilt 1994)

In 1961 IBM introduced a 'Compatible Time Sharing System'

The 'chip' is born and entered into commercial production in 1961.

Babbage’s Difference Engine built in 1991.

First main step towards the modern computer was Charles Babbage's experiments in the 1820s-1840s to build a "Difference Engine".