The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.

A Brief History of Computer Devices, from 1939 On [Infographic] - SiliconANGLEThe 1940’s was quite a decade, the topics spanning the Second World War, science discoveries such as the game theory ...

Just because the computers of the '40s, '50s and '60s were a tad on the slow side compared with the latest iPhone doesn't mean they aren't beautiful, or that they shouldn't be remembered and ...

The history of the modern computer age is a brief one. It has been about 50 years since the first operational computer was put into use: the MARK 1 in 1944 at Harvard and ENIAC in 1946 at the ...

Though the Iowan’s never-completed computer was not a general-purpose machine and lacked many of Eniac’s groundbreaking attributes (like a “clock” that governed the timing of computational ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student at the ...

The history of computers in education has been variously characterized as an "accidental revolution" or "unthinking man and his thinking machines." Others have said that the computer revolution has ...