1. B y E m m a A l l I n s o n

2. Everybody is familiar with what basically a Computer is. Personal computers are found in daily routines, and for some people its hard to live with out a computer. But the actual meaning computer means more than a Mac, or a PC we are familiar with. A computer is at the most basic a machine that can take instructions.

3. 1935-1938: Zuse builds Z1, world's first program-controlled computer. 1941: Zuse completes Z3, world's first fully functional programmable computer.

4. New features include a colour display. The Apple I and many other early computers didn't even have a case or even a keyboard. On some computers you have to added your own keyboard, if possible, and on others you toggled switches to enter programs and issue commands.

5. There are plenty of makes of computers today, because of the first invention, lodes of business people make them in different kinds, now there is a Laptop, which is basically a Computer you can carry around, apart from no Monitor. There are now, Lenvo computers, DELL, Apple Macs...etc...

6. Computers are used for a lot of things: for Social Networking, Facebook/Twitter/MySpace Msn/eBuddy Shopping online, Argos Asda Tesco Revision, BBC School Sites, and lodes more things.