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CS History Time will Tell

By rajigah2020
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    1820-1830

  • 8. Did the Difference Engine ever work?

    The first machine had many parts made, but was never completely assemble. No.2 had improvements and was demonstrated in limited capacity. Many years later the first machine was assembled and on display in London. During the 1980s, Allan G. Bromley, an associate professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, studied Babbage's original drawings for the Difference and Analytical Engines at the Science Museum library in London. With modern engineering the team designed a working model.
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    1831-1841

  • 2. What does a loom have to do with CS history?

    The punch cards that were used to made patterns from a loom were adapted to use for the Babbage analytical machine.
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    1842-1852

  • 3. Who is Ada Lovelace?

    Ada once she learned and read about the invention of Babbage’s analytical Engine, envisioned many more uses for the device. A Frenchman, Louis Menebrea had written about the machine and Charles asked Ada to translate the document. She took nine months to complete the tasks adding many more notes than the original author. These notes are what she is famous for, the ability to see the possibilities in the machine.

  • 13. What was the first programming language?

    Ada Lovelace we love YOU!
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    1853-1863

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    1874-1884

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    1885-1895

  • 7. What was the Hollerith Machine?

    A machine designed via punchcards that was first used in the census of 1890.
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    1896-1906

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    1907-1917

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    1918-1928

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    1929-1939

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    1940-1950

  • 9. What computer is patented as the first computer?

    Mauchly and Eckert applied for a patent on a "General-Purpose Electronic Computer" in 1947, which was finally granted in 1964.

  • 6. What is a stored program computer?

    he Manchester Baby Breaks New Ground
    Fifty-two minutes. That’s how long the experimental Manchester “Baby” ran a 17-instruction program using a “memory tube” devised by Freddy Williams and Tom Kilburn. On June 21st, 1948, the stored-program computer had been born. By 1949, the Manchester University team had developed a full-scale version: the Manchester Mark I.
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    1951-1961

  • 4. Why did transistors replace the vacuum tube?

    The transistors that were made by Bell were smaller than the vacuum tubes, ran cooler using less power. The military built the first computer with transistors.
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    1962-1972

  • 10. Was hypertext ever used before the internet?

    Yes, during a computer science conference in 1968 Douglas Engelbart blow people away with his 90 minute demonstration

  • 1. What did UoU have to do with the history of the Internet?

    The short answer is: In 1969, the University of Utah’s Computer Science Department became the fourth node of ARPANET, the world's first packet-switching computer network and precursor of today’s internet.
    https://it.utah.edu/node4/posts/2017/august/node4-history.php

  • 12. When did cyber security become a concern?

    The First Computer Worm
    Bob Thomas made history by creating a program that is widely accepted as the first ever computer worm. The worm bounced between computers, which was groundbreaking at the time. The worm was not at all malicious. However, it would display a message on any infecting screen stating, “I’m the creeper: catch me if you can.”
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    1973-1983

  • 14. What was the first Personal Computer (PC)?

    "A small firm named MITS made the first personal computer, the Altair. This computer, which used Intel Corporation’s 8080 microprocessor, was developed in 1974. Though the Altair was popular among computer hobbyists, its commercial appeal was limited."
    (https://www.britannica.com/technology/personal-computer)
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    1984-1994

  • 11. What service provider was first used by the general public?

    The World "In 1989 we were the first commercial Internet Service Provider on the planet for the general public. And we're still proud to be the best".
    https://theworld.com/

  • 5. When were web browsers first used?

    The WorldWideWeb (not to be confused with the World Wide Web) was the first browser ever created by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, then renamed Nexus to differentiate from the actual World Wide Web. Unlike today, this was the only browser and the only way to access the web.
    https://smartbear.com/blog/history-of-web-browsers/