Computers have a long and complex history, and they've been around far longer than the internet. In the past, computers were used to perform mathematical and logical tasks that were difficult for ...

The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it ...

Most stories in the history of computing took place in one of a small number of places. The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer.

Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine. This ...

Feb. 15, 1996, in The Star: In an essay concerning the potential use of the internet, Philadelphia Inquirer writer Trudy Rubin offers, “The genius of the concept is that anyone with a computer and the ...

Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...

This gallery is part of the What Computer Had the Biggest Impact on You? series. Also, read more articles in the 70th Anniversary issue. I received lots of feedback about the first computer you used, ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...