The answer to this question depends of your definition of a computer.
The first known counting devices or tools were Tally Sticks from about 35,000 BC. The Abacus was then invented by the Babylonians in 2400 BC.
In 1837, Charles Babbage, a British professor of mathematics described his idea for the Analytical Engine, the first stored-program mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by a steam engine and was to use Punched Cards, which was used to program mechanical looms at the time.
What made the Analytical Engine unique was that it was designed to be programmed. It was because of this and the fact that it would be more than 100 years that any similar devices would be constructed, Charles Babbage, would be considered by many as the “father of computing”. Because of legal, financial, and political obstacles, the Analytical Machine would never be completed. Charles Babbage was also difficult to work with and alienated the supporters of his work.
In 1939, John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry developed the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) at Iowa State University, which was regarded as the first electronic digital computer. The ABC was built by hand and the design used over 300 Vacuum Tubes and had capacitors fixed in a mechanically rotating drum for memory.
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), constructed in the US in 1943, is widely regarded as the first functionally useful electronic general-purpose computer. Influenced by the ABC, it was a turning point in the history of computing and was used to perform ballistics trajectory calculations and used 160 kW of power. World War II is known to be the driving force of computing hardware development and one of such use of computers was in communications encryption and decryption.
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) was the first commercially available, “mass produced” electronic computer manufactured by Remington Rand in the USA and was delivered to the US Census Bureau in June 1951. It used 5,200 vacuum tubes and consumed 125 kW of power. 46 machines were sold at more than $1 million each.
The microprocessor eventually led to the development of the microcomputer, small, low-cost computers that individuals and small businesses could afford. By the 1990s, the microcomputer or Personal Computer (PC) became a common household appliance, and became even more widespread with the advent of the Internet.
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okay Mr. Copy and Paste noooooooo one went to this page to see you arguing about the 1st computer. And this isnt about electronics its first computer system…. SYSTEM!
Bill gates didnt invent the computer go look at a computer timeline Bill gates invented microsoft… Dummy.
Really? Because you can’t even type right.
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wow your only saying that because he copied and pasted some short essay… btw thats incorrect.
bill gates was the inventor of MICROSOFT!!!!! get your facts straight there is NO TRUE INVENTOR! People have been taking diff. machines and systems while slowly evolving them into what we have today. Can we at least all agree on that?!
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If there is computer before Jesus Christ was born that means there is another life before Jesus was born. If that is the case then i we say its not Jesus that created heaven and earth that means the Heaven and the Earth has been in existence before Jesus
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God invented the heaven and earth not Jesus. So BC time was between the time God invented earth and sent his son Jesus to earth thus meaning Before Christ,, BC
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according to the Bible, on the sixth day of creation God created man in His own likeness. He said in the Genesis 1:26, if i’m not mistaken, Let us make man in our own image….the pronoun that is being used in this verse means plural, basically, God was not alone… Jesus was with Him during the creation. therefore, Jesus first before anybody else…God bless
wikipedia is not that reliable source… Bible is the Best…God bless
really? can you please give me your reference.. because im doing a research bout computer….thanx
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Don’t get ahead of yourself and saying “WAIT A SECOND! IF THEY SAY THIS THEN THAT MEANS THIS IS WRONG AND….AND…..AND…” You get what I’m saying? This information might not even be correct (SOME of it might). And Jesus didn’t come to earth RIGHT AWAY… He came later on…
Thanks for clearing all this up…i made the comment replying to “Am confused”
THERE WERE TALLY STICKS TO COUNT THE FLOCKS NOT COMPUTERS AND YES THERE WAS PEOPLE BEFORE JESUS, ADAM AND EVE WERE THE FIRST HUMANS READ GENSIS 1:1 THE OLD TESTIMENTS. I HOPE THIS HELP YOU OUT
TYPE IN WHO INVENTED THE FIRST COMPUTER IT WILL COME UP FOR YOU THERES NOT ALOT OF INFO BUT IT WILL HELP OUT
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Who is the first Computer maker? Charles Babbage or Konrad Zuse?