The Computer:Before and After

The Computer
Before and After the Evolution of the Computer

When people think of computers, they think of keyboards, monitors, hard drives and a mouse. They think of a place where one can get endless information online, play mindless games, and type projects on. People sometimes may not realize that many things contain computers. An alarm clock, television, radio, wristwatch, compact disk player and many more are all forms of things that contain computers. Most of these things were around before the computers that people think about today, that is the computers with keyboards, monitors, hard drives and a mouse.

The First Computers
Charles Babbage made the first real computer. It was called an Analytical Engine. This computer counted numbers faster than humans could. The analytical computer, like all computers, takes in information in the form of input and gives out information in the form of output. An example of this would be typing on a keyboard (input) which woul...