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- aptanalogy, on 05/12/2008, -0/+13This is not just ANY timeline; this timeline is CHRONOLOGICAL.
- Mononuclear, on 05/12/2008, -0/+13the spelling and grammar on this site are horrible
- doctechnical, on 05/12/2008, -0/+9Pretty major technical error, in chiding IBM for the 640k PC RAM limit:
"The 16bit Intel 8086 or 8088 processor could only address 640Kb (2^16 = 65536) and that's where DOS originally was programmed for."
Well, no, the 8086 had a 20 bit address bus and could therefore address a meg (2*20) of RAM. The memory map above 640k was reserved for video, BIOS and BIOS extensions for add-on cards.
And it wasn't a limitation at the time, 640k was ten times the RAM other (8-bit) systems had access to, it was HUGE in 1980.
And to the best of my knowledge Gate never said "640k is enough for anybody", even though at the time that would have been the prevalent attitude. - chanop, on 05/12/2008, -5/+12Where do LOLcats fit into this timeline?
- ShyGuy91284, on 05/12/2008, -0/+6Omitting earlier GUI-based systems and going from Apple I, to C64, to WIndows 3.0 is missing a pretty big piece of history if you ask me....
- orenshk, on 05/12/2008, -0/+5I don't think any one nation invented the computer, but this timeline ignores both Turing and Church's work.
- doctechnical, on 05/12/2008, -0/+6Right here:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/16/oh-hi-i-u ... - SteveMax, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4Sure as hell they were computers. They took data and an action (program) as input, processed the action on the data, and produced an output. That is a very good definition of "computer".
- inactive, on 05/12/2008, -0/+6Turing is almost always ignored in these 'comprehensive histories' .. very sad, he was a genius.
- orenshk, on 05/12/2008, -0/+5Why isn't Turing's "on computable numbers" in there in 1936????
- scabbers, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4Ignored because he wasn't American.
- doctechnical, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3A punch card is a piece of cardboard with holes punched in it. The patterns of the holes are information. Think of a punch card as a memory device, capable of holding 80 bytes of information. That's exactly what it is.
- inactive, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3Info is interesting, but the website has dead links and typos.
- Petronski, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4"Chronological timeline?"
What other kind is there? - biggdigg13, on 05/12/2008, -1/+5Why isn't the Antikythera Mechanism on this list?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism - soupdawg30, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Hits on key points but it does leave alot of stuff out. Looks like something I would have done in middle school.
- kmg90, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3Go away you spammer
- inactive, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2Oh, please...I bet the history of computing just from the 70s, what with the first microprocessor(intel), first popular pc (apple II), and the first resemblence of the internet (ARPANET) is more than enough for an entire history book.
- youtellme8, on 05/12/2008, -1/+4This is really important. Understanding the ways in which groundbreaking technologies have evolved in the past will help us predict how the future of an ever more technological world will unfold.
- soupdawg30, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2They didn't play games or have interwebs maybe you don't think it was a computer. It was.
- plingboot, on 05/12/2008, -1/+4Hmmm. you do sound a bit like a flag waving dick tbh. (I'm british too btw) To claim 'The Brits' invented the web is a bit misleading, the guy that invented it happened to be british, yeah, but as far as I'm aware it wasn't specifically a british project in any way... the guy wasn't even resident in britain, nor is he now.
Collossus (the code breaking machine), was demoed in 1943... but then the germans had the Z3 in 1941. The manchester mk1 was 1949. I suppose you could argue Babbage but that's a bit of a stretch as it wasn't really built until recently. - Stupidumb, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2I did.
- loquax, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the inclusion of Atanasoff–Berry Computer. Iowa State has fought long and hard to get Atanasoff included in the history of computing. In many ways Atanasoff is the Philo Farnsworth of computing and was shoved to the side unfairly.
- cdigioia, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1It's much less confusing that way
- doctechnical, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_cards
- doctechnical, on 05/12/2008, -1/+3I would say if there's one thing the history of computing has taught us, it's that we can't predict a thing. Even Bill Gates didn't think the internet was going to be a big deal.
Who saw MP3s coming, or P2P file sharing, or MMORPGs? - RealmDown, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Go away you God damn, ***** piece of motherless ***** spammer.
You weren't wrong, but I tried to fix it up for you. Accuracy counts you know. - inactive, on 05/12/2008, -3/+5Great timeline.
- corradokid, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1"Mac Intosh" uhmmmmmm.....Engrish?
- greendalek, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Fascinating study, but dear lord someone needs to go through it with a spellchecker. When the grammar is THIS bad, it makes for an extremely suspect article --really tears at the credibility.
- antdude, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1If you see missing graphics, then allow referrers for this Web site.
- Mechanicat, on 05/12/2008, -2/+3Get bent.
- chubbstar, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1dammit. i wanted to say that.
- Woeful, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1There are a bunch of significant holes in this timeline... The ENIAC needs to be mentioned, as does the Apple Macintosh!
- mrogi, on 05/17/2008, -0/+0This is the kind of history I like.
- Petronski, on 05/12/2008, -1/+1Can it run linux?
- Mechanicat, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1Why am i being dugg down?. Explain yourself whoever you are!
- Mechanicat, on 05/12/2008, -3/+3And gay!
- inactive, on 05/12/2008, -3/+2Does anyone know how exactly punch-cards fit into this, I think they used electric machines or something, were they technically like computers?.
- inactive, on 05/12/2008, -4/+3Thanks, but..any opinions?.Were they just manual devices running on electricity or computers?.
- hrvat420, on 05/12/2008, -6/+3All of you guys that like these damn cats are fags.
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