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When was the first

computer invented?
The word “computer” was first used
in 1613. It meant the person who
performs the calculations.

But the technology did


not stop at this stage, so
people began to develop
it.
The first computer was
invented by English
mathematician Charles
Babbage in 1822.
In 1936-1938, the German scientist Conrad
Zouze created the Z1 - the first
electromechanical programmable binary
computer. At the same time, in 1936, Alan
Turing built the Turing machine.
World War II also affected the development of
computers. In December 1943, Tommy Flowers
introduced a secreted car called "Colossus",
which helped British agents break the ciphers of
German messages.
The TX-O computer, introduced in
1956 at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, was the first to use
transistors. Then a team of scientists
involved in the development of TX-O
founded Digital Equipment
Corporation and in 1960 introduced
the computer PDP-1.
The first desktop computers began to
be released by Hewlett Packard in
1968.
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