ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it ...

So, who invented the computer? (Un)fortunately, there is no simple answer to this question. The modern computer is such a ...

It was the first machine to work like the computers we have today. Show more In June 1948, the ‘Baby’ was invented. It was the first stored-program computer, meaning it was the first machine ...

Computer pioneer Fernando Corbato, who first used passwords to protect user accounts, has died aged 93. Dr Corbato introduced the basic security measure while developing methods that let more ...

Taschen has published a new book called The Computer, which traces the evolution of machines in computer history. Written by German author and graphic designer Jens Müller and edited by Brazilian ...

long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was computer scientist Alan Kay. Its intended audience was children.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the transistor had not yet been invented, computers were analogue and made up of large mechanical gears. They were nothing like the electronic equipment ...