“Internet Time” 1995-2001 By Sam Olsen
Microsoft (& others) Personal Computing version 3.1 of Windows licensing policies emergence of Dell, Compaq, and Gateway
Applications in Use Applications on original Mac Windows’ fight against Lotus Microsoft Office appears!
Internet Explorer & Law Suits Paperback’s “look and feel” of 1-2-3 Lead to more lawsuits 1994- a Consent Degree by Microsoft Clever Microsoft Netscape follows Microsoft 1997- Charges against Internet Explorer
Email MSN, Exchange, Yahoo! the counter threat called Hotmail
Emergence of Dot.Com & Another Policy Acceptable Use Policy “Extensive use for private or private business” UNACCEPTABLE! 1992-restrictions were lifted NFSnet dissolved
In Marches Al Gore 1991-proposition of a National Information Infrastructure lead to the High Performance Computing Act (the “Gore Bill” Continued to champion Internet usage www.whitehouse.gov the “unanticipated consequences”
Perks of Java HTTP- by Tim Berners-Lee Bill Joy’s, of SUN Microsystem, search for new programming language C-plus-plus-minus Java-1991 James Gosling p-system
Revenue from Online July 1995, Jeff Bezos- Amazon.com September 1995, Pierre Omidyar- Auction Web WELL (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”) “virtual communities”
What am I looking for? search engines and “portals” Yahoo! - 1994 “bots” that “crawl” through Web sites Google - 1998, Sergei Brin & Larry Page
Linux 1988- Seymour Cray chips made from gallium arsenide Linux by Linus Torvalds “open source” program UNIX characteristics to understand Linux social, not technical reliance on the C programming language & use of C compilers
Linux & Connection to UNIX Linux close to UNIX but still different AT&T becoming a nuisance perks of allowing free software projects - Eric Raymond
A New Language GCC, the “GNU C Compiler” Torvalds moved in a slightly different direction with GCC GNU, “GNU’s Not UNIX” managed to avoid legal problems! GNU General Public License
Quick Note on IBM Where did it go? Suffered huge loss in the early 1990s but changed (unlike the rest of the BUNCH)
Bibliography Ceruzzi, Paul E. "Chapter 10, Internet Age." A History of Modern Computing: Paul E. Ceruzzi. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT, 2003. Print.