The history of computers goes back over 200 years. At first theorized by mathematicians and entrepreneurs, during the 19th century mechanical calculating machines were designed and built to solve ...

The history of computers from 1930 to the present is a story of extraordinary progress, tracing humanity’s journey from ...

Personal Computers (1970s–1980s) The Altair 8800 and later computers like the Apple II and IBM PC helped popularize personal computing in the 1970s and 80s.

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries ...

The development of the personal computer was iterative and contingent; it was not a matter of destiny but of experimentation in many different directions at once. The Apple II beat out its ...

Haigh and Ceruzzi tackled the challenge of writing a definitive, comprehensive history of an ever-changing technology, by breaking the seventy-five years (1945-2020) of “modern computing” into ...

Computers and artificial intelligence have changed our world immensely, but we are still at the early stages of this history. Because this technology feels so familiar, it is easy to forget that all ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 19: Old computers are displayed at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) ...