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Computers have about 3 birthdates, one being the first computing device in about 500bc this was SUPPOSEDLY the first computer EVER -
Charles Babbage (1792–1871), a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University in England, was the first man to think of building an automatic digital computer; despite long years of effort, however, Babbage did not construct his “difference engine,” because of the age’s rudimentary technology.
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In 1879, the British scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907), is likely the first to conceive of an automatic analogue computer for solving differential equations; however, no such machine was built.
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At last, in 1886, Herman Hollerith, an inventor and statistician working on the census of the United States, what Hollerith called his “statistical piano” once finished led to its use in the census, this time, Hollerith’s tabulating device is said to have saved the government $5 million and two years of work. This punch card principle later became the basis of accounting and statistical machines that found wide application in business and industry.
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In 1925, Dr. Vannevar Bush and associates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revived the idea of a machine to solve differential equations. In 1930, they perfected the first operating general-purpose automatic analogue computer, called a differential analyzer; although it utilized an electric motor, all its parts were mechanical.
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The first automatic digital computer, called the Complex Computer, was built at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York and demonstrated in 1940. The first general-purpose automatic digital computer was the Harvard I.B.M. Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, which went into operation in April, 1944.
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Meanwhile, from 1942 to 1946, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (1919–95) and John W. Mauchly (1907–80), a physicist, were busy designing and building the world’s first truly electronic computer, called ENIAC, which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator.
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In 1958, the american engineer Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit or microchip, which was one of the greatest improvements in computers. Due to the microchip being complex, using cheap materials, and smaller than an average fingernail
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In 2022, virtual reality became popular, making it seem like the future. Meta, the same people who own facebook, run by Mark Zuckerberg created headsets that were affordable and futuristic. However, virtual reality also means putting someone in the cockpit of a virtual plane in flight school, or any other time it can feel more like reality than a game. This is the creation of the future.
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I believe we are closer to seeing 'the future' than we realize, with the fast improvements of computers and the constant need for newer devices, it is going to come closer than we realize, maybe holographic computers arent just for the movies