Contact usFor many of us, computers have only been a part of our lives for the past twenty years or so. They have only dominated our lives for the past ten. The history of computing, however, dates back thousands of years. The history of electronic computing dates back to the Second World War.
What I find remarkable is that out of the numerous predictions made when my parents were children, the only technology to outstrip expectations was computing. In fact, many pundits of yesteryear made predictions that computers would be as big as houses and only owned by the richest men (only men were rich in the 1960s) by the dawn of the new millenium. These predictions made of computing technology have to go down in history some of the worst cases of incorrect prediction in the 20th Century.
Here's a nice illustration of how the computer evolved in the last 50 years of last century.
http://www.historyofcomputer.org/
Enjoy!
What I find remarkable is that out of the numerous predictions made when my parents were children, the only technology to outstrip expectations was computing. In fact, many pundits of yesteryear made predictions that computers would be as big as houses and only owned by the richest men (only men were rich in the 1960s) by the dawn of the new millenium. These predictions made of computing technology have to go down in history some of the worst cases of incorrect prediction in the 20th Century.
Here's a nice illustration of how the computer evolved in the last 50 years of last century.
http://www.historyofcomputer.org/
Enjoy!
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