The History of ComputersTechnology has evolved over time and some people do not know much about the past, so let us go back to the beginning. Back then computers did not run on electricity, it ran on steam and it was a creation of Herman Hollerith, but it had only helped count. Herman was the man who first started IBM, but he only wanted the military and universities to use them. Then one person decided that normal civilians to own computers and not just the military and universities, he called his company Apple. Someone had went to IBM to ask them to buy their product ( a mouse) , but they had denied them, so they went to Apple and they bought the man’s idea.Around the 1900s, technology had evolved over steam and had the era of the vacume tube. The computer has evolved from the vacume tube to the transistor, next after that came the integrated circuit and now we have nano-chips and they are so small you need a microscope to see it and it’s smaller than a piece of hair. I remember when I was in the time of when they had put ink in your fingers to know your fingerprints and now there is a machine that scans your finger to recognize who you are. There is a secret military base in the middle of Cheyenne Mountain and that is where the military looks over the United States for any incoming attacks. Then, there was memory cards, they used to hold only 16mb to 16gb +, since 2004, they had increased from 16mb to 16gb + and you could put . . . read more. |
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