Internet Art: Introduction

The Introduction to this book gives a lot of information on the individuals that first developed ideas for computers and other technologies. Charles Babbage, a mathematician from the nineteenth-century, developed programs. Later on, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx further developed this idea. Technology would not be where is is today without the invention of programs. Because of Babbage, others were able to write instructions for engines to use. Augusta Ada King was able to construct instructions that were later used by the United States Department of Defense. Babbage is known to be the father of the first mechanical computer.

A big leap in technology was when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozinak developed the Macintosh in 1984. Once the Macintosh was developed they were able to compete with PC by IBM. The Macintosh was the first computer to have clickable icons, instead of having to type out instruction to the computer. This development led to the inventions of the mouse and many word processors for computers. The Macintosh changed technology into what it is today. We have become so advanced in just 20 years because of the Work of Jobs and Wozinak.

Both of these inventors contributed greatly to what we have today. The world and technology would be completely different without them and their inventions.