Zeeshan Mir Baz

20 Fascinating Facts About Computer Technology and Internet We browse for the latest technology and computer gadgets but no one is enthusiastic much about some fascinating facts that would make us wonder, was that even possible to exist! No matter how far we have reached in science and technology, each of the popular inventions’ existence is rooted back in that era in which those were considered impossible to become a reality. The history of factual based information isn’t just about the plans and inventions but also some sudden situations that weren’t expected to occur. So, let’s go through them each and get lots of surprises in a row. 1. World’s first super computer was developed by IBM in the year 1956 which weighed nearly a ton and would store up to 5 MB of data. 2. If computer’s brain was designed just as a human brain then it could store 3584 terabytes of data and perform 38 thousand trillion operations each second. Do not underestimate your own brain! 3...

A Brief History of Computer Technology A complete history of computing would include a multitude of diverse devices such as the ancient Chinese abacus, the Jacquard loom (1805) and Charles Babbage's ``analytical engine'' (1834). It would also include discussion of mechanical, analog and digital computing architectures. As late as the 1960s, mechanical devices, such as the Marchant calculator, still found widespread application in science and engineering. During the early days of electronic computing devices, there was much discussion about the relative merits of analog vs. digital computers. In fact, as late as the 1960s, analog computers were routinely used to solve systems of finite difference equations arising in oil reservoir modeling. In the end, digital computing devices proved to have the power, economics and scalability necessary to deal with large scale computations. Digital computers now dominate the computing world in all areas ranging from the ha...