We've Come a Long Way, Baby
If you don't think so, just look at these links.
February 14, 1996 marked the beginning of the
18-month celebration of ENIAC's 50th anniversary. ENIAC, you may
remember, was the world's first electronic, large scale, general-purpose
computer. It was activated at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1946,
and they just happen to have a Web Page dedicated to "The Birth of
the Information Age" (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~museum/).
Interestingly, all the original ENIAC programmers (six) were women.
Many more historical links can be found at "The Virtual Museum of
Computing" (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html).
Speaking of history, there is a very interesting article by some of the
folks that made the Internet what it is today. "A Brief History of the
Internet, Version 3.1
(http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/)
is written by such folkd as Vinton Cerf (TCP/IP), Leonard Kleinrock (packet
switching theory), Robert Kahn (ARPANET), and Stephen Wolff (NSFNET).
"Technology CyberTrends (http://www.duke.edu/%7Emccann/q-tech.htm)
gives a glimpse at what our technological future may be like.
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