ENIAC - 1946
In 1943 John Mauchley sought funding from the
U.S. military
ENIAC had -
(ENIAC had 20 registers, each could
hold a 10 digit number.
There have been many other key developments, and
among them
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1949 - Genius Another who worked on the ENIAC was John Von Neumann, who developed the IAS machine. This one man accomplished more than most of us realise, and is worthy of special note here. He was, to quote Andrew S. Tanenbaum 1"a
genius in the same league as
John Von Neumann saw that programming with switches
and cables was
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Exerpts from The
Internet Index Number 2
Inspired by "Harper's Index"3 94 Number of electronic mail messages received by the White House since last summer: 200,000 Number of prosecutions for sending threats to President Clinton by electronic mail: 1 Percentage of Web survey respondents over 40 years of age: 10 Number of companies registered on the Internet in April, 1994: 14,726 Number of bytes on the NSFNET backbone in June, 1994: 15 trillion Percentage increase from June, 1993: 114 Number of bytes of World Wide Web
traffic in June, 1994: 946 billion
Number of America Online subscribers
in June, 1994: 900,000
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