A brief history of Computing & the Internet:
- Charles Babbage got into computers way before they were cool; his 19th Century Difference Engine, designed to calculate and print mathematical tables, is considered to be the original computer.
- For the computer to seriously develop, a serious man was required to do some serious work: Alan Turing. During WWII, Turing and his posse devised the first working computer, aptly titled The Bombe. After using this computer to crack German "Enigma" codes, he got arrested for being a homosexual and later commited suicide by drinking cyanide. Heavy stuff.
- IBM start producing the first commercially produced computers in the 1950s. These first machines were massive and expensive, so as a result, only the military and large companies could use them. It's worth noting that back then, they didn't have social networking sites or any websites back then, so even if you had a computer, you couldn't do anything fun or productive with it.
- Bill Gates decides to drop out of high school and start writing computer language for the first personal computers (PC's) released in 1975. That same year, Bill Gates started a company you may have heard of called Microsoft.
- Modern-day tech giants Apple were also founded around this time, by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak whose girlfriends left them for Bill Gates, since word on the street was that Bill had his own company. After selling their first Apple computer for $666.60 and their soul to the devil for untold wealth, the PC revolution began.
- Bill Gates joined forces with IBM and to cut a long story short, became the richest man on Earth for a long period of time. The End.
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