History and Flow;1965-1966

By: Evan Azcuna

Period 5

Cat

1965: Ted Nelson coins the term "hypertext," which refers to text that is not necessarily linear.1965: Engineers at TRW Corporation develop a Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System which later develops to the Pick Database Management System used today on Unix and Windows systems.1965: Texas Instruments develops the transistor-transistor logic (TTL).1965: Gordon Moore makes an observation that later becomes widely known as Moore's Law.1966: MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum writes a program called Eliza, that makes the computer act as a psychotherapist.1966: Stephen Gray establishes the first personal computer club, the Amateur Computer Society1966: The programming language BCPL is created.

Info Context

Ted Nelson

1995: Ted Nelson coined the word hypertext, which means a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data inconsequentially.

Engineer’s Creation

1995: Engineers at TRW Corporation develop a Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System which later develops to the Pick Database Management System used today on Unix and Windows systems.

Texas’ Accomplishment

1965: Texas Instruments develops the transistor-transistor logic (TTL).

Moore’s Law

1965: Gordon Moore makes an observation that later becomes widely known as Moore's Law.Which is the observation of the amount of transistors on a microprocessor increasing.

How Does That Make You Feel?

1966: MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum writes a program called Eliza, that makes the computer act as a psychotherapist.

I’ll Bring the Software

1966: Stephen Gray establishes the first personal computer club, the Amateur Computer Society.

BCPL 101

1966: The programming language BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is created.

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