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Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 9:02 pm
by Yuli Ban
One BYTE of RAM from 1946
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That's actually about 1.25 bytes, but still.

We've come from THAT to modern systems that have gigabytes, even terabytes of RAM. I'm fairly sure the highest end supercomputers have petabytes of RAM. Quadrillions of times more than this!

Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:46 pm
by Time_Traveller
The Internet's Early Days as seen in TV Commercials Pts. 1 and 2 (2000)




Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:14 am
by Yuli Ban

Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:30 am
by Yuli Ban
TIL about the tabulating machine, which was invented to help process the 1890 Census and spawned the data processing industry, IBM, and modern computing as a whole
The tabulating machine was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. Later models were widely used for business applications such as accounting and inventory control. It spawned a class of machines, known as unit record equipment, and the data processing industry.

The term "Super Computing" was used by the New York World newspaper in 1931 to refer to a large custom-built tabulator that IBM made for Columbia University.
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Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:34 pm
by Yuli Ban

Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:34 am
by Time_Traveller
Most Popular Websites 1993 - 2020


Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:15 pm
by weatheriscool
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Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:27 pm
by Yuli Ban

Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:41 am
by Yuli Ban

Re: History of Computers & Internet

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:36 am
by Yuli Ban
Here's one of those forgotten chapters of the Dotcom era


It's so charming, it's like the Analytical Engine of cryptocurrencies