The History of Computers
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| What is a computer? | 3500 BC: Stone Henge |
| 300 BC: First calculator: Abacus | 1642: Pascaline Calculator |
| 1600's Leibniz's Discoveries | 1822: Babbage and the Punched Card |
| 1842: The world's first programmer | 1890: The birth of IBM |
| 1941: Harvard Mark I and Vacuum Tubes | 1945: Grace Hopper and The first computer "bug" |
| 1946: ENIAC | 1951: Transistors |
| Fortran and other Programming Languages | 1965: Integrated Circuits |
| 1975: Altair: The first Personal Computer | 1976: Jobs and Wozniacs garage: Apple |
| 1981: The Rise of Microsoft | 1982: The Man Of the Year |
| 1986: If computers were cars | 1990: The World Wide Web |
| Computer Explosion | Computers in the future: Moore's Law |
Project: Crossword Puzzle: Now make a crossword puzzle base on your questions. There must be 19 clues, each of which is answered by a key word from your Scavenger Hunt questions, one term per question. The terms must be key vocabulary. For example, question: this programming language name stands for Formula Translator and was an early programming language. Answer: Fortran .
You can generate your crossword puzzle at Armored Penguin. You must save your puzzle as an html for uploading to your web page, and print out an answer sheet to turn in. Remember, the puzzle must have your name on it.