History of Computing
By Archie Duckworth
The First Computer
The first idea for was fought off by Alan Turing.In 1936 Alan Turing dreamt up a thinking machine. He called this.He called it an imagination machine.He worked as a code breaker in the war but when the war ended he worked on AI (Artificial Intelligence)
The World Wide Web
The world wide web also known as www. The world wide web was invented by
Sir Tim Berners-lee.The world wide web is a searching engine when you search something on the internet it will have www. infront of iit for example www.facebook.com.
The first website when live put on the 6th August 1991
What is a Computer
A computer is a complex version of a calculator.The word computer comes for the latin word. A computer takes in data process it then outputs it. We yous computers evryday for surfing the internet working
CPU
CPU stands for Central Processing Unit
Hard Drive
The main data storage unit, it stores data magnetically that can also be deleted.
Monitor
The Monitor is there so you can visually access information.
Motherbord
This is the main circuit board that all the other major computer components plug into.
Operating System
Operating Systems are sometimes pre-installed and you need a operating-system for your dives to work.
Optical Drive
A Optical drive is used to play cds and films
RAM
RAM stands for Random Access Memory.This is where the computer does the working out .It is like showing your workings in maths
Sofwere
Software is a program such as google chrome,mozilla firefox.
Keyboard
keyboards are used so you can type information on to you document of on your computer