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Some interesting parts: Sep 1947: ACM first meeting Jan 1948: John von Neumann's thoughts on high-level languages(FORTRAN) Oct 1957: Students' reaction to co
by okaya 11y ago
Some interesting parts:
Sep 1947: ACM first meeting
Jan 1948: John von Neumann's thoughts on high-level languages(FORTRAN)
Oct 1957: Students' reaction to computerized registration
1 Oct 1969: First ARPANET transmission
1 May 1978: First spam email
12 Aug 1981: 16-bit IBM PC
1985-1989: Supercomputers made from Radio Shack parts
1993: The era of the search engine begins
1994-95: Windows and the Web take over. The diverse, rich, idiosyncratic history of computing stops here
- bgilroy26 11y agoI was very surprised to read of John Vincent Atanasoff out at Iowa State this morning. He had a tremendous impact and I hadn't ever heard of him. http://www.columbia.edu/~td2177/JVAtanasoff/JVAtanasoff.html http://www.columbia.edu/~td2177/JVAtanasoff/JVAtanasoff.html A US District Judge ruled in the 70s that the ENIAC was largely derivative of the computer Atanasoff had developed with his student Clifford Berry. Berry would continue on to work for Remington Rand and Burroughs on the BatComputer http://tjsawyer.com/B205Home.htm http://tjsawyer.com/B205Home.htm
- agumonkey 11y agoTiny web-archived link http://web.archive.org/web/20130420132055/http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ABC/Progress.html http://web.archive.org/web/20130420132055/http://www.scl.ame...