short history of internet & e-commerce peter s. vogel, adjunct copyright, peter s. vogel,...

Short History of Internet & e-Commerce

Peter S. Vogel, AdjunctCopyright, 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

Card Plug Board

2nd Big Bang >> World War II

Invention of Computers

Computer Hardware

Punch Card

Tape

Disk

Auxiliary Storage

Network

Modem

CPU

Printer

CRT - Video

I / O {Input/ Output}

C entral Processing UnitC PU

Operating Systems

*Windows

*Apple X

*Unix/Linux

*z/VM

Software Applications

*Office

*Quicken

*Oracle Database

Mainframes

Minicomputers

Microprocessor

Today’s Computers

Servers

Personal Computers

Handhelds

Altair

Sinclair

TRS-80

TI 99/4A

Apple III

3rd Big Bang>> 1981 IBM’s

Personal Computer

Before IBM PCTwo Major Operating Systems

1. Apple Computer

2. CP/M Operating System owned by Digital Research

Microsoft v. CPM

IBM Plan for the PC

Intel microprocessorsControl 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, etcMicrosoft 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>>> 1990s 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

Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis

Internet System Consortium

Internet Traffic Report

Doing Business with Computers

Orders by paper or telephone

Keypunch

Computer generated reports

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

Specialized software

Compatible Systems

Relatively costly

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