Call Muslims have Mecca, Jerusalem in the Israeli goal of Christians, was the cradle of the Indian state of Hinduism and Buddhism. Each has a history that is closely related to the origin of a religion.
Well, the site InfoWorld has chosen some "holy place", specifically for perpetrators world of information technology (IT). These places are recommended to visit, remember this is where a lot of phenomenal innovations in the field of computers initiated.
It is no secret, most discoveries or pioneering IT companies, particularly in the United States, carried out in the garage or dorm room. Therefore, do not be surprised if some places in the following list is not tangible buildings or mansions.
Here it is, 12 sites which play an important role in the history of the computer world.
(Note the order does not reflect priorities)
1. 367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, California, USA
Location was ordained as the birthplace of Silicon Valley by the state of California in 1989. This house is the garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard developed their first product: Model 200A audio oscillator, more than 70 years ago. Legendary film "Fantasia" Disney's output is one of the works that use this product in the manufacture of its soundtrack. Today, their pioneering company, HP, has been transformed into one of the giant vendors in the IT world.
2. 2066 Crist Drive, Los Altos, California, USA
In this house, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer pioneered in 1976. Duo Steve produce 50 PCs that they named Apple 1 in an unused room. Computers they make and then sold through shops Byte Shop for $ 500 per unit. As the best-selling products, orders grew, so a few months later, the "factory" move to the garage. Apple buzz through his personal computer has become a phenomenon at that time and now increasingly popular with its Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
3. 232 Santa Margarita Avenue, Menlo Park, California, USA
The last place is located in the Silicon Valley. Still shaped garage, here the duo Larry Page and Sergey Brin do research while developing the Google search engine. From an idea that appears when two students are talking in the dormitory Page (see no. 12), they have the support fund of one million dollars and finally decided to rent a garage in the house owned by Susan Wojcicki, an Intel employee.
4. CERN - Geneva, Switzerland
A nuclear research laboratories and centers of giant-sized buildings. This place is more famous for the Large Hadron Collider machine, a tool that scientists investigating the origins of the universe. But probably not many who remember that CERN was also the birthplace of the World Wide Web. In 1990, physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, and system designer, Robert Cailliau, design concept-based information systems hypertext links (hypertext links) which they called "Mesh". Here, too, still kept the original web server built by Berners-Lee, called NeXT.
5. Bletchley Park - Bletchley Town, England
The location of Britain's National Museum of Computing, where Colossus machines on display. One of the first electronic binary computer could be programmed to break secret codes. This machine used the British army during World War II in an attempt to dismantle the Nazi secret messages coded Lorenz.
6. Xerox PARC - Palo Alto, California, USA
The parent of many important discoveries in the IT world. Graphical interface (GUI) first made here, the ethernet cable was connected first time in this place. A laser printer? WYSIWYG text editor? Adobe Systems? Ubiquitous computing? Total found at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
7. Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University - Ames, Iowa, USA
Laboratory development of one of the pioneers of the digital computer in the world. Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC) is the first machine that is able to integrate binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, and logical circuits. Designed and built by John Vincent Atanasoff & Clifford Berry during 1937 to 1942, this computer comes earlier than ENIAC machine which is also often claimed as the first computer.
8. Moore School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, USA
Place of birth of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), a more popular name to answer the question "What is the world's first computer?". Launched in 1946, ENIAC is the first electronic system capable of meeting the requirements of the modern computer that was brought Alan Turing, a feat that has not achieved the ABC computer. The author is John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
9. IBM's "Main Plant" - Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
In this mill, until recently, IBM's process design, production, and launch of products its mainframe computers. One is the IBM 701. In 1953 the last, the computer is staying digadang as high-speed computers of the most advanced and most flexible in the world. Then there were also families System/360 mainframe. One model, the S/360 Model 75, used NASA for the Apollo 11's historic project.
10. Room 2713, Dobie Hall, University of Texas - Austin, Texas
After visiting the museum, laboratory, and factories, it's time again "grounded" to a university dormitory. In room 2713, a student named Michael Dell was first to sell a homemade computer through the intermediary letter in 1984. Effort that he pioneered has now transformed into a vendor Dell.
11. Kirkland House, Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
One of the most prestigious universities in the world, Harvard, once had three students that is currently transformed into a young billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Familiar with these names? Absolutely, they're the originator of today's most popular social network, Facebook. A third-floor room at Kirkland House a silent witness to their efforts.
12. Lyman Residence Hall, Stanford University - Stanford, California, USA
Last stop. In this dorm Lyman, Larry Page never inhabit a room where the emergence of inspiration to make the Google search engine. Together with Sergey Brin, they ripen ideas in the room before finally moving to Susan Wojcicki's garage (see no. 3). From initially just for the task of the dissertation, unexpected Google could reap huge commercial success.
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