60 years ago, guess what happend?

[sun]

1946 - ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert====Jan l, l946

You have come a long way baby.......................


Stuart

[Lord Dalek]

So has the company that made it. They used to be a defense contractor, now they just manufacture graphing calculators and tv sets.

[Gatomon41]

ENIAC helped lay the foundations of the Digital Worlds according to the mythos. Indeed, a glouris day that was 60 years ago :p

[solarflere]

Wasn't the first computer as big as a football field? it was designed for the U.S. Army inteligence department.

[Artimus Gigan]

ENIAC helped lay the foundations of the Digital Worlds according to the mythos. Indeed, a glouris day that was 60 years ago :pYes they opened the glorious doors and made it possable for every man woman and child to have acess to the vast resource known to many as...free online porn.

[Mog]

Yes they opened the glorious doors and made it possable for every man woman and child to have acess to the vast resource known to many as...free online porn. We really have reached the pinnacle of society, haven't we?

[Artimus Gigan]

We really have reached the pinnacle of society, haven't we?No, they still need to make the discovery of Ultra Porn

and to find a cure for cooties

Though seriously in 60 years, Computers have surpassed TV and radio in overall development and improvement.

[solarflere]

No, they still need to make the discovery of Ultra Porn

and to find a cure for cooties

Though seriously in 60 years, Computers have surpassed TV and radio in overall development and improvement.I got cootie insurance so I am not worried. As for free porn, ENIAC will forever live in honor and prestige for that. Computers are in everyday life now. A digital cable box is a computer, even a cash registers in your local supermarket.

[Kuja's Light]

Not only have they had the largest growth, but they are one of the few things that can be used largely for entertainment, but have also become a need pretty much worldwide. Many big businesses were able to start because of computer technology to help make things much easier.

Of course already existing ones came to benefit too.

Coruse, most of that sprung in the 70's/80's.

[Natey]

Yes they opened the glorious doors and made it possable for every man woman and child to have acess to the vast resource known to many as...free online porn.LMAO!!!!!!!! Ya the computer when they made it was huge. ENIAC You made it possible for free online porn. lmao that is just the funniest thing ever Artimus

[Kagetsu]

Wasn't the first computer as big as a football field? it was designed for the U.S. Army inteligence department. I'm having trouble confirming this quickly

I believe the first "electronic" computer was Colossus. used to break Nazi codes at Bletchley Park. Filled a room, but not a football field.

[Gatomon41]

I'm having trouble confirming this quickly

I believe the first "electronic" computer was Colossus. used to break Nazi codes at Bletchley Park. Filled a room, but not a football field.
I think ENAIC was one of the First Digital Computers though.

[Lord Dalek]

I think ENAIC was one of the First Digital Computers though.Eniac was 100% analogue.

[Brettfern]

Oh how the years go by. I wonder how I would have lived if I were alive 60 years ago..

[sun]

Oh how the years go by. I wonder how I would have lived if I were alive 60 years ago.. There were adding machines, a very few tvs , a huge percentage of the population went to the movies for entertainment, (one might argue some of the old movies were better) people lived more in neigborhoods, and knew each other, cars were big fat and ugly, manual transmissions, not everyone had a car , most did, huge parts of the U.S.A were rural, lots of public transporation in the cities, people lived, some ways better, a lot of ways much worse...
....Kids played differently, and they had simplier games, but games anyway...Oh, and banks and financial institutions kept records manually, stores had manual cash registers, mostly, life was simplier, I do know people didn't live as long, Some doctors made house calls, but their medicines were not as good.Just talk to somebody maybe 70, they will tell you what it was like to grow up as a kid.in the 40s...It might be fun...There is probably someone around that you could talk to to find out...
Oh and lots of smoking then...
.............................................Good Luck...Stuart.

[Alex Toon]

Yes they opened the glorious doors and made it possable for every man woman and child to have acess to the vast resource known to many as...free online porn.But if we still uased the computers, we'd have to spend more money on larger monitors the size of a tennis court. Hardly internet privacy!:yawn:
I'm glad that in only 60 years, computers have come from being the size of the Superdome football field to being sold in the 'Dome off-season.
Hooray for technology!!!

[Kagetsu]

Eniac was 100% analogue.:sweat:ok, you lost me with that.Colossus and Eniac would have been vacuum tubes instead of integrated circuits, but isn't the basis the same 1-0 (on-off) even for todays computers, being what makes it digital? I've used "analog" for like the firecontrol computers for biggun battleships. Using gears to do the calculation instead of electronic switches.