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Computer History — Personal Computers, Computing and Internet!

And the first calculating machine, invented by French entrepreneur Charles-Xavier Thomas de Colmar, was put into serial production in 1851. Without the work of these and many other inventors, it’s ...
The Middletown Press

How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...
Ars Technica

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...