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The First years of the computer
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The Computer is Born...
This first type of computer was used to help enginneers with their calculations and different simulations. It was also used in the Disney movie "Fantasia" to help the movie with making its sound effects. -
First vaccum tube-based computer
Some of the near universities tryed to help in the computer development of this type of computer; this technology was also soon used by the government for the war effort. -
Schools without computers
Even though a lot of people started to become aware of these new machines called computers, they were not a normal item to have in a school and also because they were so large and heavy. Thats is why many school's didn't have computers until later. -
School Computers
The first computers are introduced to some schools that could afford to get them. They were used in these schools to help keep track of administration. -
Information Age
Also known as the Computer Age and Digital Age, this time marked the time where people started demading for things to make life easier and ways to get information faster which in turn started a point where people started to make personal computers. -
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Information Age
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First PC's
For those who don't know PC stand for "Personal Computer" and the First PC's didn't appear until the early 1990's when Microsoft released the first personal computer. Unlike todays PC's this computer was a lot slower and was still in its early stages of testing. -
How computers effect people in our society today
We depend on the computer to do many things. Like when we are typing a document on Microsoft Word and we miss spell a letter then it will automattically fix it for you or give you some options to what you wanted the word to be spelled as. Another good side is that it is easier for us to communicate with the people we work with and it saves a lot of kids time on researching a project. -
How many people use the internet?
Africa: 167,355,676
Asia: 1,076,681,059
Europe: 518,512,109
Middle East: 90,000,455
North America: 273,785,413
Latin America/ Caribbean: 254,915,745
Oceania/Australia: 24,287,919
