1. What made Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine different compared to his Difference Engine was that it was programable and would produce different results.
2. Ada Lovelace played the role as the first computer programmer in the development of Babbage's Analytical Engine.
3. ENIAC was reprogrammed with removable sections of vacuuming tubing that people had to manually move about in order to program the machine.
4. Post ENIAC, portable data and memory, such as Floppy discs, made programming much faster because the "software," didn't need to be stored in the computer.
5. Binary counting was better for computers because as much information that is packed into the common numerical could be packed into binary code by only using a 1 and 0 or a flash of a light and it's absence, translate that into a series of switches and code is produced. Therefore this binary language worked perfect for the switches used int he first computers.
6. UNIVAC influenced the portrayal of computers in popular culture in the 1950's by in cartoons such as Warner Bros. Looney Toon's, "Rocket Squad," performing functions such as playing pianos, functions other than just computing numbers.
7.The name of the computer at Bletchley Park in England, was Colossus.
8. Alan Turing who understood the implication of such machines later went on to describe them as computing machines.
9. I remember the first time that I used a computer, it was at a friends house and we tried to play games on it. The screen was blue and all the information was white. We were unable to play games however we still had a great time just typing randomness into the computer. The several times that I used a computer after that, I played actual computer games on the computer.
I believe that it is these games that allowed me to became much better than my parents at using a computer from a very early age. I had an early familiarity with these machines that I learned through games, these games taught me through repetition and exploration, how to use a computer. I also created a website in school at a very young age, something I don't remember anything about today but it was very simple, maybe two photos and barely any text.
10.I believe that computers are extremely restricted in what they are used for today, I believe that there is a huge amount of untapped potential in computers. Like the house in 1999 A.D., I believe society has the potential to be at that technological level today however for some reason we focus our computing technologies on other things. Individual houses could all have a computer that plugs into it and monitors, literally everything, it could see unseen relationships, create data sheets regarding shopping lists, electrical bills, cooking, cleaning, etc. It could tell you when you need to buy things that are running out, it could monitor light levels one needs to intake, there are so many things.
The computers could also run government, therefore voting could become more and more important on a daily basis or weekly basis, a government where there is no leader but a decider(computer), create for and by the people, where each individual is just as important.
