COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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The word Computer was used for the first time to describe ____
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the iPad
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A calculator
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A person
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Back before computers were even associated with mechanical devices, the word “computer” was first in use in 1613 as a label for a person that performed calculations. And this definition would stick to its human counterpart for over three centuries until the 1800s arrived.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first computer, the Antikythera mechanism (200 BC – 70 BC), was mechanical. Initially, computers were people – it was a job title. The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built until 1991! Alan Turing invented computer science.
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