disadvantages of computers

Thinking ability. Stops us from thinking about solving problems. Computers break down. When they don’t work it stops companies and people working. Addiction. Playing games or social networks can lead to an addiction. Conversation. People are spending less time communicating with the people face to face. Lack of exercise. Children and adults spend to much … Read more

ARPANET

In January 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense (ARPA) awarded a contract to Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) to design and construct a communications network. By the end of 1969, an experimental ARPANET was operational between four university nodes. This system was the forerunner of the Internet. The idea for … Read more

ACE Computer

On 19 February 1946 in London, England, computing pioneer and World War II code-breaker Alan Turing delivered the complete design of the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a stored-program computer. Turing may be the first to conceive of the electronic computer as a universal machine, with the flexibility to logically manipulate symbols to solve a variety … Read more