Tag: computer
How did the Enigma Machine work?
The Enigma Machine was used during WWII by the German Army to get keep messages encrypted. It looks almost like a typewriter. There are 26 keys and 26 letters that can light up. These lights tell you how the keys will be scrambled up. The machine work...
Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)
Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)
5 Mind-blowing Artificial Intelligence Tools 🤯
Are you looking for ways to make your work easier, more efficient, and fun? Check out this video to learn about 5 unbelievable AI tools that will help you ge...
Inside Amazon's Massive Data Center
Amazon Web Services is an unrivalled colossus of the internet age, providing the computational horsepower underpinning countless organizations from Netflix to BMW, Disney to GE, Tinder to the CIA. It earns tens of billions of dollars a year, and if you’ve...
The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh
The Original 1984 Macintosh Introduction: the magic moment, when Steve Jobs unveils the Macintosh and releases it from its bag. We've found these historical ...
Restorers Try to Get Lunar Module Guidance Computer Up and Running | WSJ
In 1976 in a warehouse in Texas, Jimmie Loocke bought two tons of scrapped NASA equipment. Years later he realized it included a computer from an Apollo luna...
The "New" File System in Windows: ReFS
Well it's not exactly new, but it's still rare!
Steve Jobs Interview - 2/18/1981
An interview with Steve Jobs filmed on 2/18/1981 about the future of Apple, Computers, the Home & Personal computer markets, video games, and more.
Kathy Kleiman’s offers a valuable boost to our understanding of modern computers and their beginnings in wartime
In 1942, the unthinkable happened. This “help wanted” ad appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: “Looking for Women Math Majors.” The ad was placed by the US Army, which was hiring women to work at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, at the...
Why the Soviet Computer Failed
In 1986, the Soviet Union had slightly more than 10,000 computers. The Americans had 1.3 million. At the time of Stalin's death, the Soviet Union was the world's third most proficient computing power. But by the 1960s, the US-Soviet computing gap was alr...
Future Computers Will Be Radically Different
Future Computers Will Be Radically Different
Do NOT Shut Down Your Computer! (here's why)
We've all seen the buttons for Shut down and Restart in Windows. But have you ever wondered what is the difference between a "shut down" and a "restart"? Or why a Windows PC boots up really fast from a shutdown but takes longer after a restart? I'll tell...
In the last 20 years, software ate the world. In the next 20 years, AI will eat software.
In the last 20 years, software ate the world. In the next 20 years, AI will eat software.