Internet
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809Cloud Computing
The advent of the Internet changed the way computers operated. In the early era of computing, large computers were beyond the reach...
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812Open Source Software
UNIX became popular in the late 1970s. It was chosen to be the basis for the projects of the US Defence Advanced...
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834Dennis Ritchie, A Giant of the Computer Age
Inventor of the popular programming language, C, and co-inventor of the UNIX operating system, Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) was a giant among software...
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870Bill Gates – A Pioneer
William (Bill) Gates lll was born in 1955. His father was an attorney and his mother a school teacher. Young Gates did...
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789How Software Is Eating Up The World
In the 1960s, college campuses in the USA were notorious for their obsession with drugs, rock and roll, and sex; yet, there...
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864Microsoft and Bill Gates
When Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, he could not have imagined that he would reap the benefit of a worldwide Internet...
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837Personal Computer History Timeline
The history of the computing revolution may be viewed in three main phases: first, the formative era (1946-1981), which began shortly after...
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1.2KVinod Dham – Inventor Of The Pentium Chip
Widely regarded as the inventor of Intel’s Pentium chip, India’s Vinod Dham made significant contribution to the development of microprocessors. After winning...
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1.1KHistory Of Internet – 1990’s
The Web is simply a means of sending information on the Internet as discrete packets of data using the protocol, TCP/IP. Using...
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829IPv6 and IPv4 – Internet Protocol Systems
Each Internet-enabled device such as a computer or smartphone or laptop (and indeed any gadget including frig or water heater in the...
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691When Was The First Webpage Created?
The first effort to index the Internet was made in 1989. The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990, as the rationale for its...
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715Domain Names and Internet Protocols
When a user types the web address into the browser, the request is sent across the Internet to routers, which identify the...