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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I thought the Indians invented the computer?
your dum
we did make the computers
u stupid. the indians didnt hav electricity, dummi!
yea the irwin county middle and high school invented them partna!
tarrrrrrrrrrds it was the greeks duh
idiot is spelt with and i noe e GOSH
lol indians are to stoned to do anything
gee..even im looking for who invented the first computer
is it konrad zuse or is it charles babbage?
im lost …o.o”"
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Charles babbage
i know
no
whats the definition for a computer
who eva you retards are…shut the crap up
shut up you ediot
im sick!!!!!!!!
what the hell os this related to comp?
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you people have like anger manegment problems…calm down. it’s just about stupid computers its not that big of a deal VVVV
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get a life ppl
I want to know about the person who invented the computer not all that other crap!!
This article which you called “crap” is helpful to those who were looking for such information, what you all should have done, was to check out another article on another site to find EXACTLY what you were looking for.
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what the hell is this???? and WHO invented the first comp???????? man! who ever wrote this thingee doesnt know how to answer QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!
Situated about 50 miles to the north west of London at Bletchley Park is the former WW2 code breaking centre (also known as Station X). It was here that a dedicated team of talented mathematicians (including Alan Turing) worked to break the German Enigma codes and also the more complex codes used by Hitler and his high command.
The number of people working at Bletchley Park grew throughout the war to a point where there were literally thousands of people working around the clock decoding and analysing messages. Despite the number of people involved, the German high command had no idea that their security had been compromised and believed that their codes were unbreakable.
The success of the code breakers was one of the key factors in the Allied victory, many historians believing that it shortened the war by up to 2 years, saving thousands of lives.
After the war, all trace of what occurred at the park was burned or destroyed. Such was the culture of secrecy at Bletchley Park that no word of what happened began to emerge until the mid 1970’s. To this day, many people who worked there are still reluctant to talk about it.
During the war, many ingenious aids and machines were developed at Bletchley Park to aid the breaking of codes. One of these was Colossus — the world’s first electronic computer.
(For many years the honour of being the world’s first electronic computer was given to the American ENIAC. In recent years, however, both the UK and US governments have declassified and released papers giving more information about Colossus. In the light of this historians have been forced to reconsider and most now agree that Colossus was in fact the world’s first electronic computer.)
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So Charles Babbage. Did he invent it?
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oooh my god who is the proper inventer?!?!?!?! 0.o
no they dident inyevt the first computer
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Charles Babbage DID NOT invent the first computer… pay more attn. to the reading…
it clearly states that charles babbage only came up with and developed the schematics for the first computer… not the computer itself…
DOWN at the next paragraph is clearly stated that the FIRST computer was developed, known as the ENIAC
PAY SOME ATTENTION
All yall need to shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You!!!!!
I AGREE VERY MUCH BCAUSE I WANTED TO KNOW THE PURPOSE AND HOW INVENTED THE COMPUTER AND THEY R TELLING ME STUPID STUFF U KNOW BUT ITS OK BCAUSE I AM GOING TO A NEW WEBSITE 2 FIND INFO
I think your caps lock key got stuck somewhere
Im At School..!!
lol you are all gay arguing over computers talk about nerds
There are alot of ppls who invented thet computer!!!! =P
im sorry but a guy named konrad zuse created the first computer. bill gates just made it better
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you people need to give more information of who invented the first computer
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Im the on invented the computer hehehheh
Let me try one of those catchy phrases: Ken you bee mach dummyier then you hev ever bin befor?
LOOK you need to pay attention who ever you are read the damn article alright and check your damn attitude!!!
it was Konrad Zuse who invented the first computer and most people wanna know tbhis stuff for their projects or hw or whatever so you guys need to chillax and stop calling everyone geeks id rather be a nerd than be some poor guy on the street dont you think? so keep you’re mouths shut
if any one knows who invented the first computer can you reply and tell me cause im doing a project and need to know
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Charles Babbage had an assistant. A computor language
was named after her ADA The daughter of Lord Byron
She was a mathmatical genius I believe . It did in fact work
but Babbage naturally wanted improvements the problem being
the lack of fine quality engineering needed. And its cost
I doubt the americans had a computer in ww2 because in the
book COLLOSUS , Americans were invited to Bletchley Park
to learn how it was done.
who invented the computer i need to know! i AM DOING A SKOOL PROJECT!!
go to google and find out for your self pls
You must qualify your question. computers can be mechanical, human and electronic. Mechanical see the abacus or ada, Human see how canon shot found its target. (it can be calculated in advance by having a room of Calculators as they called them – ie people sitting at desk working the formulas out by hand) and the Electronic calculator – IBM again! They once made a machine that they called a “time machine” but it was actually a “Time Clock” but an early one and thats how it all began.
Bill Gates was only lucky very lucky. What he did was to take a computer language called CPM and made some simple changes.
Retards……. first of all IM At School!!!!!! second of all chinese DID NOT invent the computer, bill gates did!
Retards……. first of all IM At School!!!!!! second of all chinese DID NOT invent the computer, bill gates did!
Bill Gates
this dude clifford berry sounds weird^^
haha…..his name ryhmes with cabbage…
tell me about all of the computer generation
and picture of every computer related that generation
John Atanasov and Clifford Berry invented the first computer, John Atanasov is bulgarian!
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This whole debate can be linked back to our natural insticnts that white people are better, their I said what none of you were brave enough to. So now that the truth is out you can all go back to your miserable lives.
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this guy only came up with idea of inventing the computer
its not just kids or geeks who wonder about this stuff, its people who have a brain and know how to expand it without fear of being ridiculed for wanted to explore things that arnt everyday questions. i mean come on i was hanging out with some friends tonight just having a good time and having conversations, and we got curious i cant tell you how much i learned in the last 12.5 hours…yea we have been up all night searching stuff that lead us to the question who invented toliet paper…i have never even cared about what brand i used but now you guys better believe i will be reading the labels of all the brands on the shelf… but i gtg for now ill be on different topics all the time… so to all the haters out there for wondering about something, you guys are the losers, that are obviously not gonna be anybody to remember in this world, give people credit…
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is this techno geek land over here or what
I’m from South Africa I would love to know the person who inveted the computer, I want the real thing or person…..
who invented the first computor
U knw Guys lets stop playing Ne? Who is the first man to invent die macihine?
hello bye im typin this at school lol
The Yankee hater was right the first computer was invented by the Brits during WWII to be able to decode german orders
The US., Michael Jackson invented the first modern computer
omg this is stupid im just doing this from school lol rymfire el
Mhmm..
Make a computer out of cheese, because cheese tastes good. Or Ice cream. Maybe onions. But those don’t taste good…but it’d be funny… lol…
Omg my name is Robert! =) but sadly im in love with food, sorry. And yes Charles Babbage did invent it.
hi! I want to know the real person that invented the computer, plssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!……………………….
who is evan?
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Add more information because it is really not telling me nothing
I don’t see you saying anything about the subject!?
Charles Babbage did not steal John atanasoffs idea because john was born in 1903 and charles died in 1871…
Lets clear this up once and for all.
Babbage NEVER actually made his computer he only came up with the idea.
ENIAC, give me a break, in 1943 Britain had invented Colossus which was used to break the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park, England. Colossus is the first known computer, however due to the nature of its use it was kept secret at the time and infact at the end of the war all 10 of the machines were destroyed and the staff sworn to secrecy over their role in the breaking of the codes.
All you people are so STUPID! John Atanasoff was the king inventor of the computer, along with his student Berry. Atanasoff is a US citizen, but his parents are BULGARIAN, and he came to BULGARIA and he was given a king MEDAL for his invention. HE IS THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE NAME IN BULGARIA OKAY?! ALSO GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH GAVE HIM A KING MEDAL, AND I’M TALKING ABOUT W’S FATHER BACK IN 1990. NOW ALL OF YOU IDIOTAS AND PUTAS SHUT THE K UP AND LEARN SOMETHING FOR A CHANGE!!!!!
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I heard once that the computer was invented by someone in the u.s in the twenties some time before the great depression but the government confiscated it thinking that the inventor was a threat to them and he was never seen again?
Can anyone tell me who the true inventor of computer is?
I did my own search and i saw it all started In 1837, by Charles Babbage, a British professor of mathematics.
And when i went down i saw 1935-1938: Konrad Zuse builds Z1, world’s first program-controlled computer. Inventor of first working programmable computer.
And when i went deep down in my search…this is what i saw:
Note: Babbage (UK, around 1840) planned but was unable to build a non-binary, decimal, programmable machine. The binary ABC (US, 1942) of Atanasoff (of Bulgarian origin) and Eckert and Mauchly’s decimal ENIAC (US, 1945/46) were special purpose calculators, in principle like those of Schickard, (1623), Pascal (1640) and Leibniz (1670), though faster (with tubes instead of gears; today we use transistors). None of these machines was freely programmable. Neither was Turing et al.’s Colossus (UK, 1943-45) used to break the Nazi code. The first programmable machine built by someone other than Zuse was Aiken’s MARK I (US, 1944) which was still decimal, without separation of storage and control.
So i am confused and dont know who is who.
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You are wee-todd-ed.
wrong
Watt you doing??
The really first programable computer invented is the Mark1/Z1 Computer by Konrad Zuse in the year 1936. I know it because i have studied it.
JOHN ATANASOV invent the first electronic digital computer!!!He is bulgarian!!!!!
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the realhitory of computers starts out about 5000 years ago BC, at the birth of the abacus, a woowden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them and develop by the chinese!!!
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u all r so stupid heeheehee
i dnt even know who invented it or the truth so sad hehe
is there any planet called DORK ISM who the hell is that weirdo who wants to be an alien
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its only a computer design u dont need to get all aggy mate
John Atanasoff is the real inventor of the computer. Charles Babbage just stole his idea. That’s why they went to court and said that John Atanasoff was the real inventor of the computer and not Charles Babbage but you people just don’t get it. You left Bulgaria without history, without its own traditional food and now you are even stealing the one thing thats left. FORGET stupid Charles Babbage he did nothing but steal John Atanasoff’s idea.
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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.
occured
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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look it up in the wikipedia DUDES.
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
come on get a life you all need a thing to do in your life
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?
i think it was Charles Baggage!……………………………….hehe baggage
I doin project for it at school it sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:0
i know that assiments suck and i thnk that i have one cameing up soon and how are u not to be rude and were do u live it is cuz that i want someone to hang out and if u smoke we can smoke to and to go out with at night time about 11:30 cuz that is when my aunty goes to bed.
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well i m very impress to read it. can somebody show me or send me the first computer images to every angel and how is it large
thank you
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and what about al-khwarizmi???????
no jeues was born before enything
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shut up u peoples, computers are invented by Charles Baggage. Stop arguing and beside, what does computers got to do with god and jesus.
computer are a waste of time..i hate them i barley ever use them only to look up things for work…..computers do not help me at all!!!!!!!!!!! screw u guys
can eny one plz help me
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I love vidio games and therefore, computers and all that resemble their awesomeness
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My sisters and brothers, have faith, God invented the computer, for he is everything, i love you all.
Sister Mary
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