Computer history

The world's first website is still up and running today! Launched in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, the website contains information about the World Wide Web project and can be found at the address info.cern.ch. It's a simple website by today's standards, but it represents a major milestone in the history of the internet. #TechLanes #Technology #TechFacts

Charles Babbage was an English polymath, inventor, mechanical engineer, and philosopher who became popular due to his concept in creating a programmable computer. Before you know Charles Babbage inventions, you have to discover something about his early life first. He was born in 44 Crosby Row Walworth Road in London, England. This information came from […]

In the past sixty years or so, computers have migrated from room-size mega boxes to desktops to laptops to our pockets. But the real history of machine-assisted human computation (“computer” originally referred to the person, not the machine) goes back even further. This week is Computer Science Education Week, and to kick things off the World Science Festival celebrates the long history of man’s best friend, the computer.

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. There were other computers that had combinations of these features, but the ENIAC had all of them in one computer. It was Turing-complete and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic…

Surveys show that recently there has been a considerable increase in the number of people who have a computer at home. Few know about the process of evolution of computers, and travels to modern models of cutting edge technology of today. Following the chronological evolution of computers: - 1946: it announced the creation of the first electronic digital computer of large-scale world, the ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator). - 1951-1959: there are first-generation…

Explore the characteristics and features of first generation computers, including their technology and historical significance in the evolution of computing.

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