The TCP/IP was invented in 1974. DARPA applied TCP/IP to ARPANET. Stanford and London communicated in 1977. A lot of companies adopted it. The TCP/IP gives us the internet, and it also has a huge database of knowledge. Now, all different kinds of devices can be connected.
Sutherland, from ARPANET, developed the sketchpad. Engelbert invented the mouse in the 1960s. Xerox opened PARC in 1973. The GUI was invented at PARC in 1973. It also allows people to use te computer more easily. Xerox's Alto was too expensive. It was $9,995. Windows helped bring about the internet.
Steve Jobs was born in 1955. He got his parents to move because of bullies. He met Steve Wozniak at his new school in Cupertino. He went to work for Atari. He co-founded Apple Computer in 1976. Jobs left, then returned to apple and launched iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Developed Pixar into a major movie production company. The iPod changed the music industry. He died in 2011 (which is the year I was born).
Bill Gates was born in 1955. He had a younger and older sister. He wrote a program that put him in the class with all the pretty girls. He went to Harvard and met Steve Ballmer. He read about Altair in 1975. He founded Microsoft in 1976. He married his wife, Milinda, in 1994.
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