https://ncot.uk/tags/computing-history/ Recent content in Computing History on NCoT Tech Hugo en-gb Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:54:15 +0000 https://ncot.uk/videos/how-a-cpu-really-works/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:54:15 +0000 https://ncot.uk/videos/how-a-cpu-really-works/ <p>Let’s go right inside a CPU and watch it execute code at the transistor level!</p> https://ncot.uk/videos/how-trying-to-make-pocket-calculators-do-complex-maths-accidentally-invented-modern-computing/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:02:46 +0000 https://ncot.uk/videos/how-trying-to-make-pocket-calculators-do-complex-maths-accidentally-invented-modern-computing/ <p>What happens when you set out to build a pocket calculator? Well in this case it turns out you also accidentally invent desktop computers, and spawn a bunch of CPUs that are still being used today.</p> <p>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 watch this video, which you should totally wach, now. Go on, click it.</p> https://ncot.uk/videos/why-the-1880-us-census-lead-to-the-invention-of-the-computer/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:44:44 +0000 https://ncot.uk/videos/why-the-1880-us-census-lead-to-the-invention-of-the-computer/ <p>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 we take for granted.</p>