CA Net 3, Is the fibre-optic System which offers faster and more reliable connections to the Internet, inaugurated by Canada in 1998. Continue reading
Category: Computers
Internet Index Created by Canadians
In the days before the Internet explosion of 1994/95, three Canadians, Bill Heelan, Alan Emtage and Peter Deutsch, all whom were at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, they created a network software called Archie in 1989. Continue reading
The term “Cyberspace” first appeared in a 1984 novel
Cyberspace a word that was used in the early years of the Internet, and we all know what it is when we here it... But Continue reading
Whole Number Factored by Automatic Calculator
The discovery of the device was at the Observatoire du Bordeaux, located in Floirac, France, it was found, (hidden away for some 50 years) by the following people in 1993:
1 billion bits of data per square inch
In April 1996 an American computer company IBM (International Business Machines) of Armonk, NY, USA, introduced a disk drive that could hold / store 1 billion bits of data per square. Continue reading
ARPANET Data Link Went Into Service
The first ARPANET link was put into service on November 21, 1969. Continue reading
IBM Operating System The OS/360
International Business Machines (IBM) of Armonk, NY, USA introduced the OS/360 operating system in 1964, Continue reading
Spanish Conquistador Gonzalo Guerrero Becomes a Warrior
Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Guerrero was the first European to be accepted into the Mayan culture in Yucatan, Mexico in 1510. Continue reading
Ray Tomlinson
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; he is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email. Continue reading
ARPANET Sends the First Electronic Mail Message
The second ARPANET email message using the @ ("at") sign was sent by computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson at BBN Technologies Continue reading