Babban Ayyuka a Tarihin Kasuwancin Kwamfuta

Mutane daban-daban sun taimaka wajen bunkasa fasahar kwamfuta a tsawon shekarun da suka gabata. Wannan labarin ya bayyana abubuwan da suka fi muhimmanci a cikin tarihin sadarwar kwamfuta.

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Invention of Telephone (da kuma Dama-Up Modem)

Kwamfuta da tarho na zamani daga shekarun 1960. H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty Images

Idan ba a samu wayar salula ba wanda aka kirkiri a cikin shekarun 1800, raƙuman farko na mutane da ke shiga yanar-gizo ba za su sami damar samun layi daga gidajensu ba. Cigaba da kwamfutar lantarki zuwa layin waya analog don taimakawa wajen watsa bayanai a kan wannan cibiyar sadarwa na buƙatar wani ɓangaren kayan aiki na musamman wanda ake kira modem .

Wadannan magunguna sun kasance tun farkon shekarun 1960, wadanda suka fara goyon baya ga rahotannin basira 300 (0.3 kilobits ko 0.0003 megabits) na biyu (bps) kuma suna cigaba da cigaba a cikin shekaru. Masu amfani da Intanit na yau da kullum sun gudu fiye da 9,600 ko 14,400 bps links. Shahararren "56K" (56,000 bp) modem, mafi yawan gaggawa da aka ba iyakokin irin wannan watsa labarai, ba a ƙirƙira shi har sai 1996.

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Yunƙurin CompuServe

S. Treppoz ya zama Shugaba na AOL da CompuServe a Faransa (1998). Patrick Durand / Getty Images
Ƙungiyar Bayaniyar Bayanai ta kirkiro ta farko ta yanar gizo na masu amfani, tun kafin masu samar da yanar-gizon da aka sani irin su Amurka Online (AOL) sun kasance. CompuServe ta kirkiro tsarin jarida na labarun kan layi, sayar da rajista wanda ya fara a watan Yulin 1980, mai amfani da shi ta hanyar amfani da akwatutattun akwatunan da suka rage don haɗi. Kamfanin ya ci gaba da bunƙasa a cikin shekarun 1980 zuwa cikin shekarun 1990s, yana fadada don ƙara tarurrukan tattaunawa da jama'a da kuma tara mutane fiye da miliyan daya. AOL ya sayi CompuServe a shekarar 1997.

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Ƙirƙirar Shafin yanar gizo

Tim Berners-Lee da sauransu don ƙirƙirar yanar gizo (WWW) farawa a cikin shekarun 1980 ne sanannu ne, amma WWW ba zai yiwu ba tare da tushen tushen yanar sadarwar Intanet. Daga cikin manyan mutanen da suka taimaka wajen samar da Intanet sune Ray Tomlinson (mai gabatar da tsarin imel na farko), Robert Metcalfe da David Boggs (masu ƙirƙirar Ethernet ), tare da Vinton Cerf da Robert Kahn (masu fasaha a bayan TCP / IP Ƙari »

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Haihuwar P2P File Sharing

Shawn Fanning (2000). George De Sota / Getty Images

Wani dalibi mai shekaru 19 mai suna Shawn Fanning ya fita daga koleji a shekarar 1999 don gina wani software mai suna Napster . A ranar 1 ga watan Yuni 1999, aka sake sakin saitunan yanar gizo ta Networking ta Napster a Intanet. A cikin 'yan watanni, Napster ya zama ɗaya daga cikin shahararrun kayan software na kowane lokaci. Mutane a duk faɗin duniya a kai a kai suna shiga cikin Napster don yardar ladaɗa fayilolin kiɗa a cikin MP3 dijital.

Napster shine jagora a farkon fanin sababbin sababbin sashin layi na P2P (P2P) , juya P2P a cikin ƙungiyar duniya wadda ke samar da miliyoyin fayilolin fayiloli da kuma ayyukan shari'a da aka kashe miliyoyin. An rufe sabis na asali bayan 'yan shekaru, amma daga baya al'ummomin ci gaba na P2P kamar BitTorrent ci gaba da aiki a kan intanet da kuma aikace-aikace a kan hanyoyin sadarwa na sirri.

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Cibiyar Cisco ta zama Kamfanin Kasuwanci Mafi Girma na Duniya

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Cisco Systems sun dade daɗewa a matsayin jagoran masu samar da kayayyaki na sadarwar, wanda aka fi sani da su don haɓakar haɓakar haɓaka. Ko da baya a shekara ta 1998, Cisco ya ba da tallafin kudaden dalar Amurka miliyan biliyan kuma ya yi aiki fiye da 10,000.

A ranar 27 ga watan Maris na shekara ta 2000, Cisco ya zama kamfani mai mahimmanci na duniya bisa la'akari da farashin kasuwancinsa. Ya yi mulki a saman bai daɗe ba, amma ga wannan ɗan gajeren lokaci a lokacin ragowar gin-gizon, Cisco ya wakilci wani ci gaba mai banƙyama da kuma sha'awa cewa duk kasuwanni a duk faɗin yanar sadarwar yanar gizo da ake jin daɗi a lokacin.

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Ƙaddamar da hanyoyin Gidan Gidan Hanya na Farko

Linksys BEFW11S4 - Wayar Wuta ta Broadband-Broadband. linksys.com

Manufar hanyoyin sadarwa na kwamfuta sun dawo zuwa shekarun 1970 da kuma baya, amma haɓaka hanyoyin sadarwa na hanyar sadarwar gidan gida don masu amfani sun fara a shekarar 2000 tare da kamfanoni kamar Linksys (daga bisani Cisco Systems suka samu amma kamfani mai zaman kanta a wannan lokacin) ta saki na farko samfurori. Wadannan wayoyin gida na farko sun yi amfani da Ethernet da aka sanya ta hanyar sadarwa ta hanyar sadarwa. Duk da haka, har ma a farkon 2001, mahimman waya na farko 802.11b kamar SMC7004AWBR ya fito a kasuwa, yana fara fadada fasahar Wi-Fi a cikin hanyoyin sadarwa a duniya.