Tag: Computer

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9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer

9th September 2022
Tagged as: America, Computer, Computing, Harvard, Moth, Science, Technology, United States, USA

The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic relay.

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11th May 1997: IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions

11th May 2022
Tagged as: America, Chess, Computer, Computing, Culture, Game, Invention, Russia, Science, Technology

Ranked as the 259^th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per second.

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12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

12th November 2021
Tagged as: Britain, CERN, Computer, Computing, Internet, Science, Technology, World Wide Web

Within five years the World Wide Web began to be adopted by people and companies that weren’t connected with science or academia, and it has seemingly been dominated by photographs of cats ever since.

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13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan

13th September 2021
Tagged as: Computer, Computing, Culture, Technology, Video Game

Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available worldwide.

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3rd May 1978: The world’s first ‘spam’ email sent by Gary Thuerk of Digital Equipment Corporation

3rd May 2021
Tagged as: Advertising, America, ARPANET, Computer, Email, Marketing, Technology, United States, USA

Thuerk later revealed that around 40 people came to the demonstrations the email was advertising, and estimated that this led to more than $12 million in sales.