Hard but Clever question

[msb.]

In the spam section, my topic got off topic/unanswered, it is best to post here, I wanted a quick response but never got 1... well I did but some daft & funny answers...


My question is:
Have you ever wondered how computers actually was invented, e.g. Who thought "oh lets make a computer" how can you just put alot of wiring together then make it show pixels :S? I don't get it, can sum1 explain?

P.S. I am not planning to make a computer "LOL" just educational for future use really, just a bugging question I have that never gets answered.

Please don't say "GOOGLE IT"

[Recursion]

Technology gradually gets better, computers first started as a load of coggs turning wheels etc..

Then as Technology advanced through science etc.. people started putting things together and experimenting.

[bo$$]

I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought about it.

Google it. You'll find your answer there.

[DaveTaylor]

Basically was again because of war, silicon chips where invented, and then the whole mathematical equations come into it, with all the transistors etc, it's basically applied physics and equations.

[msb.]

I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought about it.

Google it. You'll find your answer there.
I redid my first post.

[DaveTaylor]

To be honest I might just get iFuseDan to post a reply.

[Jordy]

It's all down to maths and science really.

No one thought, hey lets make a 'COMPUTER' in a case with a DVD Drive, Graphics card, quad-core processor, DDR2 RAM, SATA Hard-drive etc...

It just gradually developed and improved from giant mathematical calculators.

[msb.]

To be honest I might just get iFuseDan to post a reply.
why i don't understand why u said that?

[DaveTaylor]

He's a brain box, he knows what he's on about.

[msb.]

He's a brain box, he knows what he's on about.
so don't you lol :)


Judging from the comments, it was not meant to be designed but science and maths worked as a team and then it was planned to make it

[DaveTaylor]

It was a idea as computers can process information quicker then a human brain (i think it's like that?) so it was basically a calculator so to speak and it advanced from there. I think?

[msb.]

It was a idea as computers can process information quicker then a human brain (i think it's like that?) so it was basically a calculator so to speak and it advanced from there. I think?
damn this world is clever LOL,

We now have pavements, its kl

[N!ck]

Well the first calculator was the first sort of computer really and that was the size of the room and took inputs of inserting a strip with holes in it lol. Stuff just gets more advanced from ther. You find new ways of doing things, making the same thing but smaller, making something better.

It all boils down to a load of electrical signals turning themselves on and off very quickly to make a series of "0s and 1s" 0 being off and 1 being on just like the symbols on many power switches.

[Recursion]

We can all say our computer games are educational now! They all rely on complicated mathimatical equations LOL.

[Hypertext]

The first computers didn't originally do much, they were very mechanical, for instance you could set a number, if a number was bigger or smaller than the set number it might move a mechanism up...or down. Then things we know today slowly got introduced such as the monitor, keyboard, speakers, the internet, the hypertext transfer protocol etc.

[DaveTaylor]

We can all say our computer games are educational now! They all rely on complicated mathimatical equations LOL.

they are, trig, polygons etcs. C++ is math.

[flatface]

I have thought about that to, gradually over time I have concluded. It's just one of those things really..

[Tomm]

In fact analogue computers can be traced back to ancient Greece times (150-100BC).

[msb.]

aww I see it was just about calculators etc... sums and that then gradually people found easier ways to calculate sums and then bam a computer was formed, kl lol