A Little Bit Of The Old Times

Computers are one of the main types of equipment found in offices. They enable you to carry out a multitude of tasks, including email, accounting, word processing and database creation/administration.

During the 1970s, technology in the United States was still growing as personal computers were not as popular due to their bulky size. Not only were computers large in their form, they also cost more than what an average working class American could pay for. Due to the steppe price of a computer, they were considered more of a novelty item rather than a necessity for everyday use. Although personal computers were not yet seen in homes,

“Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.” (10.2)

There have been many advances since the initial invention of the computer fifty years ago. Today, computers operate many of the things that we use in everyday life. Some examples of these things are farm machinery, cars, planes, video games, heat and water delivery to our homes, banking, billing, and even the stock market. The advances of the computer have resulted in the

Internet is one of the biggest differences in technology. Without internet we wouldn’t have half of the things that we do. We wouldn’t have Google or Wikipedia to quickly look something up. No, we would have to go to the nearest library or just ask around the neighbors if there wasn’t a library. Sometimes people lived miles away from the nearest person, so that would mean a lot of walking to get anywhere. Also, telephones were not created then. To communicate you would have to send a letter which could get lost in the mail or take weeks to arrive, or you would have to meet face-to-face and talk. There was no email or facebook or

I was born after and have grown up with the Internet. Outside of it, I have learned

The 1940’s was the beginning of an era of computers ruling us. It all started with Konrad Zuse a German engineer creates and finishes the computer called Z3 built in 1941 it was built using 2,300 relays, and used a floating point binary arithmetic, and had a 22 bit word length. Although the original was destroyed in a bombing run in Berlin in late 1943. He supervised a reconstruction of his invention in the 60's which is on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In February of 1946 the ENIAC was released and the public was able to view it, built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert they improved it by 1,000 times since the first computers were released. Started in 1943 it took 3 years to complete and it used a plugboard and switch program, and the speed was about 5,000 operations per second. It took up 1,000 square feet, or the size of a small house! In 1944 the Harvard Mark-1 was completed. Thought by the Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and built by IBM, the dimensions of this beast was room sized, relay-based calculator. Also it had a

The origin of the computer resides with the military. The computer itself was created by the military during the Cold War era, when we were in a technological race with Russia. This race was the fuel for massive advancements in technology especially in the sector of computer intelligence. The first Computer’s were physically large enough to fill an entire room. They were used to manage large quantities of data in textual and numerical form. The government backed certain research facilities in the advancement of the computer and some investigated and experimented in computer technology with art and music. 1

A central Nazi goal was to identify and destroy Germany’s 600,000 member Jewish community. Only after Jews were identified could they be targeted for asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and ultimately extermination. To search generations of communal church, and governmental records all across Germany was a cross-indexing task so monumental it called for a computer. But in 1933 no computer existed. When the final solution sought to efficiently transport Jews out of European ghettos along railroad lines and into death camps, with timing so precise the victoms were able to walk right out of the boxcar and into a waiting gas chamber. The coordination was so complex a task this to called for a computer. However another invention did exist: the IBM puch card and card sorting system- a precursor to the computer. IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary made Hitler’s program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success. IBM Germany, known in those days as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft did not just sell the machines and walk away. IBM’s subsidiary with the knowledge of its New York headquarters, enthusiastically custom designed the complex devices and specialized applications as an official corporate

The first desktop all-in-one personal computer was the HP 9830 (1972) the first known PC was IBM’s 5150 introduced in 1981. The PC was known for its CUI , it required the Disk Operating System (DOS) to operate it and it offered a broad list of business software solution such as word processors, spreadsheets, calendars etc.

Or at least, a time before the internet became what it is today. I grew up with internet access on my flip-phone that was expensive, and took ages to load. We would access the internet on desktop computers, or maybe a family laptop, but it was not at our fingertips all day long. I, along with a majority of my classmates, did not have a smartphone until high school, and that was when media became a larger part of my life. While I can’t claim that I grew up in a similar situation to those born five years before me, I can speak to the extreme differences between people my age and those born five years later, and especially those born sixteen years later in

In the 21st century, life without the internet is something we absolutely cannot think about. The internet has become an essential and integral part of our lives. There is no doubt about the fact that the internet and all the technological advancements have helped improve our lives immensely and has also made life a lot easier than what it used to be even a few decades ago. However, it is not all sunshine and the internet has several ill effects too that affect us in ways that can prove to be very harmful in the long run.

From time to time those that have come before us such as our moms, dads, and grandparents will reminisce on the good old days. A time when there was no Internet so one had to read the newspaper for updates, write rather than type during class, go to the library for research, knock for a friend, use snail mail, etc. For me such thoughts have made the understanding of the phrase, “the good old days” quite blurred. The fact is the so-called “good old days” was a time that seems astronomically different, slow paced, and quite frankly dull compared to today. That is, since I can remember the Internet has always been apart of my life, practically advancing its growth as I have grown. The Internet has revolutionized today’s society changing our

The first ever computer was invented in the 1820s by Charlse Babbage. However the first electronic digital computer were developed between 1940 and 1945 in the United States and in the United Kingdom. They were gigantic, originally the size of a large room, and also need to be supply a large amount of power source which is equivalent as several hundred modern personal computers. The history of computer hardware covers the developments from simple devices to aid calculation, to mechanical calculators, punched card data processing and on to modern stored program computers. The tools or mechanical tool used to help in calculation are called calculators while the machine operator that help in calculations is called computer. At first the

Studying is not that hard, we just need to go back were theres no Net, wifi. Stuying old ways are more effective but time consuming. But if you want to learn it will surely take time to do so. We cant literally blame people who invented this kind of entertainment since their objective is for the great and easy way of work. It is us the people who take advantage or maybe lazy or get addicted to it. We must have control. Like as if the government will control our time usage in wifi.