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The first computer was invented in 1936. By Konrad Zuse. It was called the Z1. Unfortunately Zuse died in 1995.
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The term debug came about long before the internet was invented. It was originated by the term debugging. It was attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were “debugging” the system.
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Thankfully, the internet started in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 (the first satellite), beating the United States into space. It was started because, it was known as the American defense system. The internet was invented by the US Department of Defense.
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The design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by English mathematician Charles Babbage. The machine was essentially modern, anticipating the first completed general-purpose computers by about 100 years. It was the first described in 1837.
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Herman Hollerith’s machine was designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. It was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
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The Eniac was built for calculating artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory, but its first use was in calculations for the hydrogen bomb. When it was announced in 1946, it was known as a “Giant Brain”
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A program is a listing of the order of events and other pertinent information for a public presentation.
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The vacuum tube, used to amplify music and voice, made long-distance calling practical, but the tubes consumed power, created heat and burned out rapidly, requiring high maintenance.
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The inventor of the first microcomputer was
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The binary system is the manner in which numbers are rendered for use in computers. The binary system is a base two system, the system is generally formulated in relation to the progression of powers.
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1. http://www.idsia.ch/~jurgen/zuse.html http://www.idsia.ch/~jurgen/zuse.html 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging 3. http://wiki.answers.com http://wiki.answers.com 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical Engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical Engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/Tabulating Machine http://en.wikipedia.org/Tabulating 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/Ask.com http://en.wikipedia.org/Ask.com 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/Microcomputer http://en.wikipedia.org/Microcomputer 9. http://en.wikipedia/ask.com http://en.wikipedia/ask.com 10. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa061698.html http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa061698.html
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