A Brief History Of Computing
Discover the origins of computers by examining early tools and inventions that influenced computing. Learn about key devices like Jacquard looms, automata, and Charles Babbage's analytical engine, leading to the development of digital computers while understanding the foundational concepts behind programmable machines.
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What are computers?
Humans have always built tools and made innovations to make life more comfortable and to allow us to do more things faster and more efficiently. We need to go back in time a few hundred years in order to see the first attempts at building a tool that could resemble a computer. However, before we do that, we might want to define what a computer is.
Note: Wikipedia offers the following definition: “A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.”
So, a computer is a programmable machine that performs arithmetic or logical ...
