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Computers - vocabulary
People, from the beginning of time, have created devices that help them to count. |
Cavemen counted with their fingers and toes.
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30,000 years ago, Cro-Magon man carved notches into bones.
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Approximately 4,000 years ago the Chinese invented the Abacus.
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In the early 17th century, John Napier ( Neper in French) invented
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In 1642, Blaise Pascal invented one of the first mechanical calculators
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Later in that century, Leibnitz modified the Pascaline and created a new
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Colossus (1944) | The first programmable computers appeared during World War II.
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Since then, things have improved.
Nowadays, computers are used by millions |
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