Activity 14

We have been asked to look at a website and get from 'stories timeline' to 'Personal Computers and Information Networks, we then followed this through to the stories on the PC, the internet, the dot com and the gold rush.

We looked at the following website:

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/

The purpose of the website is to inform A level students and the vocational students on how the world became modern and how this took place. Throughout the stories it has pictures of the first computer. (Shown on the left) At the end of the 1980's the internet was a collection of networks of computers, it had an agreed set of rules about transferring information about them. This is called TCP/IP.

The picture on the right is of a man and a woman working at a Ferranti Pegasus computer. It takes up the majority of the space in the room and it has a 1950s and 1960s mainframe installation.