Tag: Computing History
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How a CPU really works
Let’s go right inside a CPU and watch it execute code at the transistor level!
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How trying to make pocket calculators do complex maths accidentally invented modern computing
What happens when you set out to build a pocket calculator? Follow along as we go through the thoroughly bizarre story of how trying to do complex maths and fit it in our pockets lead directly to the machine you’re using right now to read this.
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Why the 1880 US Census lead to the invention of the computer
How did the 1880 US Census and the end of World War 2 lead to the invention of the computer? What was it that kickstarted the Information Age? Come with me as we find out how the need to count everyone in 1800s America directly lead to the modern information age and all the technology…