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A BRIEF HISTORY OFCOMPUTERS

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how many computers?

old servers

computers of space

binary

quick history of computers

where are computers used?

computers over time

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text to binary

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the image above links to a website that shows what your inputted text would look like in binary code. try typing something into the first box and seeing what it is!

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when computers first became avaliable to the public, they were very large and slow and could really only be used to type things and maybe code some stuff. over time, they became smaller (and then larger again) and they became able to process information at over thousands of times faster than they were ever prevoiusly able to. for example, Megabytes became Gigabytes, which later became Terabytes. (1,000,000 bytes ->1,000,000,000 bytes -> 1,000,000,000,000 bytes)

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as you can tell by the image above, computers can be used for many different jobs, ranging from robotics and education to government use and communication.

the many uses of computers

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This is a short video that will explain the history of computers in about 7 minutes

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Binary Code

BInary code is what computers use to store and process things like images and text. each number is a bit, which is like a switch - there are only two values: on or off (0 or 1). these values can be used in many different combinations in order to store certain information or code.

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these are the computers used to put men on the moon during the apollo missions. Looks complicated right? well as it turns out, the phones of today are thousands - and sometimes even millions - of times more powerful!

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old server rooms (like the image above) were originally used to do calculations and maybe process other information.

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• Globally, people average 6 hours 58 minutes of screen time per day.
• Daily screen time has increased by nearly 50 minutes per day since 2013.
• The average American spends 7 hours and 4 minutes looking at a screen each day.
• Almost half (49%) of 0 to 2-year-olds interact with smartphones.
• Gen Z averages around 9 hours of screen time per day.

According to the latest available data, the average person spends 6 hours and 58 minutes per day on screens connected to the internet.

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According to SCMO, there were over 2 billion computers in the world, and 5 billion in the world, showing how much technology has entered our lives.

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This is the sound that old computers would make when connecting to the internet through a phone line.

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