computers in Our World Today
ABSTRACT: Back in the 1950's computers were just being introduced and most common people did not know anything about them. Today, this is not the case. Computers and new technology, like the internet, has taken the business world by storm and our personal daily lives have been enriched because of them. Businesses are now dependent upon them and most people can't live without them.Keywords: computers, technology, internet, business The history of computers dates back to World War II, when a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania invented a general-purpose electronic digital calculator. It was called ENIAC, or Electronic Numerator, Integrator, Analyzer, and Computer. It consisted of 18,000 vacuum tubes, occupied most of a large room, and added 5000 ten-digit decimal numbers a second. ENIAC was a revolutionary development, light years ahead of any other calculators. [1] ENIAC was not a computer in the strict meaning of the term however. It could not store a program telling the computer what to do. Although ENIAC wasn't a true computer, it quickly led to the invention of one, and today's computers are its direct descendents. The first true computer invented was called E
With how much businesses depend on computers, it is hard to imagine how they ever survived before the invention of computers. With the use of computers, businesses can be much larger and expand at an incredible rate if the demand is there.
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Approximate Word count = 890
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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