Jan 1,2000

Sep 7,1970

Wide Area Network

Four Year
Program Wide Area Networks
May 21,1952 expands to the
Colleges and Internet to include
History of Information
BusinessSystems Timeline global enterprises
schools and business
Punch Cardo created a full partners. Also began
IBM created a four-year to look for data
punch card program sharing across
system- designed to systems. Main focus
Allowed study was efficiencies and
mainframes to information speed inventory,
read and systems manufacturing and
interpret data distributions
from computers
by reading a
hole punchers

PC
PC installed.
First Calculator
Departments set
Blaise Pascal, up own
French computer
mathematician systems. Using
Enthusiasm for
and Philosopher word processors
Information System
invented and
mechanical Increased enthusiasm Spreadsheets
calculator so for information made
figures could be systems to enhance departments less
added to provide management decision depend on the
information. process Mid 1960’s IT-Department.
accounting systems
were fairly effective in
supporting descriptive
information’s but Jan 3,1980
lacked capacity.
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