Valentine’s Day 1946: The first general-purpose electronic computer blossoms
It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...
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The First Evil Maid-Proof Computer
Today, Design Shift has released ORWL (as in George Orwell), the first computer designed with physical security in mind. This tiny disc of a computer is designed to defeat an Evil Maid through ...
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What was the first computer to be marketed as a "laptop"?
founder of Gavilan Computer Corp., the Gavilan SC was an early laptop computer and was the first to actually be called such when marketed to consumers in May 1983. Priced at $4,000, the first ever ...
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What was the first computer virus?
The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon). Unlike the ...
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The First Computer Virus: A New Era of Digital Threats Begins
In 2024, the idea of a computer virus is nothing new, as these computer threats are, unfortunately, common enough. When it ...