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Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969
Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Programmer Who Saw a World that Wasn’t There Yet
In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...
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10 Classic Computer Games That Shaped Gaming History
One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about ...
A rare, operational Apple-1 Computer was recently put up for auction, and it ended up selling for $375,000. The Apple-1 was the first computer sold by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, ...
Key to the game was an analog computer designed to calculate ballistic trajectories, which Higinbotham adapted for more ...
“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
Researchers at Penn State have developed the first silicon-free computer using atom-thin materials. This breakthrough could reshape the future of electronics, paving the way for ultra-efficient, ...
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