Evolution of ICT

• refers to the data

  information
• can be done in person, electronically, writing, etc.

  communication
• electronics that handle data

  information technology
• protocols

  communication technology
• • cave paintings
  • stone / clay tablets
  • papyrus paper
  • birth of books


  premechanical period
• the first data center

  library
• first ever computing device

  abacus
• who created the first abacus

  Babylonians
• development of machines

  mechanical period
• made out of brass metal and was used to add and subtract numbers up to 8 digits


  pascaline
• what year was the pascaline created?

  1642-1644
• who made the pascaline? (2)

  1. Blaise Pascal
  2. Wilhelm Schickard
• first programmable mechanical computer

  analytical engine
• who invented the analytical engine

  Charles Babbage
• what year was the Analytical Engine invented?

  1834
• what came before the analytical engine

  difference engine
• the first ever programmer

  Lady Ada Agusta Byron

  Lady Lovelace
• what did Lady Lovelace develop?

  Bernoulli Numbers
• era where people used electricity for handling and transferring information

  Electromechanical period
• first electrical communication device

  telegraph
• two inventors of the telegraph

  1. William Cooke
  2. Sir Charles Wheatstone
• year of the telegraph

  1837
• he invented the first single circuit telegraph in 1844


  Samuel Morse
• who created the telephone?

  Alexander Graham Bell
• when was the telephone created

  1876
• the era where we focused on solid state or electronic devices

  Electronic Period
• he created vacuum tubes in 1904


  John Ambrose Fleming
• first electronic and general purpose computer

  ENIAC
• what does ENIAC stand for

  Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
• who developed ENIAC

  1. John Mauchly
  2. John Adam Presper Eckert Jr.
• what year was ENIAC developed

  1946
• they developed the transistors

  1. William Bradford Shockley
  2. John Bardeen
  3. Walter Houser
• the year transistors were developed

  1947
• he developed the integrated circuit in 1958


  Jack Kilby
• contains memory, logic, and control circuits in a single chip

  microprocessor
• the microprocessor was first developed by the Intel Corp in what year


  1971
• first microprocessor

  Intel 4004
• what does Fortran stand for?

  Formula Translation
• what does COBOL stand for?

  Common Business Oriented Language
• the first commercial computer

  Olivetti Programa 101