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Website of history of IT.

The computer which is one of the most advanced discoveries of making has got a long history. Around 3000 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, there were no any kind of number system. So people had to remember a lot of information. They felt the need to count the cattle. Then they started counting using their fingers. But the limited number of finger had made difficult for them to remember more facts. So they used stone for counting. As result around fifth century Hindu Philosopher could develop new methods of counting using numbers 1 to 9. In 8th century Alkhawarism of raq developed O. Since there are ten digits these number systems method was called decimal system.

Our history begins with ancient cultures using ink for writing and drawing. We know this information from archaeological evidence that remains and from written texts that have survived.

A wonderful collection and site by a young collector of Apple computers and ephemera.

Speleotrove website: an accumulation of web pages, documents, and software.

Regardless of whether you grew up with computers or were introduced to them in adulthood, it is difficult now to imagine a world in which the Internet does not exist. We rely on the Internet to manage our money, to search for jobs, to represent ourselves professionally, and to keep in contact with loved ones across the country or even across the world. We use the Internet to research, to learn, and to enable ourselves to complete projects we would not know how to do without looking up instructions. The Internet itself is barely fifty years old, and the World Wide Web less than thirty, but if either were to disappear, modern business would all but cease. How did such an influential system come into development so quickly? It all began with a simple idea from J. C. R. Licklider.

Technology changes in the past three decades have been astonishing for both the meetings industry and for society in general.

The IBM 1401 Mainframe IBM's 1400 series of data processing systems made a significant impact on the business world. The 1401 mainframe, the first in the series, replaced the vacuum tube with smaller, more reliable transistors and used a magnetic core memory. Over 12,000 of the 1401's were shipped, and its success made a strong case for general purpose computers over specialized systems. This mainframe replaced most Unit Record equipment at the time. Our first system had 32K of memory. Eventually upgraded to 64K at a cost of $50,000 in 1965. Unbelievable!

The first known virus to appear in the wild was "Elk Cloner" in 1981, written as a joke for the popular Apple II computer of the time. Since there were no "cures" for it though, removal was difficult. The first widespread infection for the IBM PC was "(c)Brain" in 1986 by shareware developers in Pakistan, and was intended as a digital rights management scheme that went horribly wrong, destroying many hard drives, requiring complete reformatting and reinstalls (like "Popureb" just last week) and putting the developers out of business.

The computer history timeline that is the foundation for the history of the PC begins way back in the 1930's The PC, or personal computer, has revolutionized today’s society in several different ways. When computers first came on the scene and started being used to help the government and businesses work more efficiently, this was seen as a major step forward in technology. At first, however, nobody dreamed that the computer would find its way into our homes, where it would help to change the way people communicated, sought information, purchased goods, and took care of everyday tasks. These days, PC’s are almost as commonplace in the home as televisions, and are used almost as frequently.