History of the Computer and Internet

'Cyberspace is poetry inhabited, and to navigate through it is to become leaf on the wind of a dream.' Novak



Week two's lecture was about the history of computing and the internet. The first computers were first commercially produced in the 1950s by IBM. The first generation of computers were large machines used only for military, government and corporate work but it was known that computers would become smaller, quicker and less expensive in years to come (Stockwell 2009). The internet came about in the 1960s when the idea arose by RAND corporation. "The internet a network of networks...to link people around the world into an information system" (Stockwell 2009). Later came the world wide web in the early 1990s and it has just enhanced significantly from there.