The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic relay.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Ranked as the 259th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per second.
The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to late-1990s.
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.
Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available worldwide.
Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum.
ENIAC was soon put to use running calculations to help build a hydrogen bomb, and continued to operate until 1955.
By the time the attack was brought under control over the next few days, between 2,000 and 6,000 major systems had been affected.
American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
On the 9th September 1947, the first computer ‘bug’ was found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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