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History of The Computer and The Internet Jessie :D
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The First Computer The first computer was made in 1939 by John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
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Debug Admiral Grace Hopper Was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay Removed it and called it “Debugging”
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The Internet 1957 Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1 1958 Concerns of the people in the military Created The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (DARPANET)
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The Analytical Engine Important step in the history of computers Made by an English Mathematician named Charles Babbage. Because the complexity, lack of project management science, expenses, and difficulty of accessing its value it was never built.
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Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Used to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data
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ENIAC Built to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, but its first use was in the hydrogen bomb. Built in secret in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering. WAS HUGE!
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Program A computer program is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task for a computer. Also called a Software Program or just a Program.
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Transistors > Vacuum Tubes Vacuum Tubes were used to amplify music and voice. Made Long-distance calling practical. Consumed power, Created heat and burned out rapidly. Required high maintenance Transistors did not.
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Microcomputer 1975 Ed Roberts Altair 8800 Produced Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems. MITS Ye old Microsoft :D
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The Binary System Base-2 number system Represented numeric values using the symbols 0 and 1. Used internally by ALL modern computers 100101110100110
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References Wikipedia.org Well actually I didn’t realize but almost all of the stuff I got was from wiki :/
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