Computer motherboard history

Year Event 1981 The first motherboard, originally called a “planar,” was used in the IBM Personal Computer. 1984 The AT, or Full AT, motherboard form factor was introduced by IBM in August 1984. 1985 IBM introduced the Baby AT motherboard form factor in 1985. 1987 The LPX motherboard form factor was developed by Western Digital … Read more

History of monitors

The first monitors use CRT technology (cathode ray rube) and firstly made in 1922. The earlier commercial version was produced in 1954. This technology used for 50 years until 2000 when the LCD technology replace it. The CRT technology used by computer monitors, and also for televisions too. Approximetly in 2000 the bigger monitor manufacturers start to … Read more

The History of the Computer Keyboard

The history of the modern computer keyboard begins with a direct inheritance from the invention of the typewriter. It was Christopher Latham Sholes who, in 1868, patented the first practical modern typewriter. Soon after, in 1877, the Remington Company began mass marketing the first typewriters. After a series of technological developments, the typewriter gradually evolved into the standard … Read more

Installing Google Chrome on CentOS

Follow the steps listed below to install Google Chrome on your CentOS system: Start by opening your terminal and downloading the latest Google Chrome .rpm package with the following wget command: wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm Once the file is downloaded, install Google Chrome on your CentOS 7 system by typing: sudo yum localinstall google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm The command above … Read more

HTTP 404 ERROR

  The HTTP 404, 404 Not Found, 404, Page Not Found, or Server Not Found error message is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard response code, in computer network communications, to indicate that the browser was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested. Further, when the … Read more

ARPANET

In January 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense (ARPA) awarded a contract to Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) to design and construct a communications network. By the end of 1969, an experimental ARPANET was operational between four university nodes. This system was the forerunner of the Internet. The idea for … Read more

ACE Computer

On 19 February 1946 in London, England, computing pioneer and World War II code-breaker Alan Turing delivered the complete design of the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a stored-program computer. Turing may be the first to conceive of the electronic computer as a universal machine, with the flexibility to logically manipulate symbols to solve a variety … Read more

New Technologies in the Summer of 1959

The summer of 1959 was an exciting time for electrical and computer technologies. On June 3rd, President Dwight Eisenhower sent a message to Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker by means of a radio signal bounced off the moon. At the time, this technological tour de force evoked smiles for the absurdity of sending a message … Read more