Revolution in computer technology ?

It took Pixar 29 hours to render a single frame from Monster’s University. If done on a single CPU it would have taken 10,000 years to finish.

IBM 5120 from 1980 was the heaviest desktop computer ever made. It weighed about 105 pounds, not including the 130 pounds external floppy drive

. A 15 year old hacked NASA computers and caused a 21-day shutdown of their computers.

The computer in your cell phone today is million times cheaper and a thousands times more powerful and about a hundred thousands times smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.

Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.

Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood

In 1960, the computer at NORAD warned with 99.9% certainty that the Soviets had just launched a full-scale missile attack against North America. NORAD later discovered that the Early Warning System in Greenland had interpreted the moon rising over Norway as a missile attack from Siberia.

1837 - Charles Babbage designs the first programmable computer called the "Analytical Engine". This was designed to use punch cards of the type used in Jacquard looms

In 1833, Charles Babbage invented all the parts a modern computer uses, but it wasn’t until 120 years later that the first modern computers were invented.

1847-1854 George Boole develops Boolean algebra which is the foundation of the hardware design of all modern digital computers.

There are more than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month.

. The house where Bill Gates lives, was designed using a Macintosh computer.

1920's - The German Enigma Machine was developed by Arthur Scherbius, and was an electromechanical rotor machine is widely used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. Although this was not a computer, being more like an advanced adding machine, its role in World War II stimulated computer design for decryption machines.

Web Arx security says more than 20,000 websites are hacked each day and most from the US

In 2012, the founder of McAfee Antivirus, John McAfee was asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus, he replied by saying “I take it off,” and that “It’s too annoying.

1936, May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"

1939, December 31 - Hewlett-Packard Company founded by William Hewlett and David Packard although they didn't make any computers until 1966.

1941 - German engineer Konrad Zuse invents and builds the first electronic programmable computer. It was called the Z3 and gave rise to the Z4 in 1950.

1943 - Colossus, the first programmable digital electronic computer is built by the British to decode German messages.

1949 - American physicists, An Wang and Way-Dong Woo create the pulse transfer controlling device.

March 30, 1951 - First commercially successful electronic computer, UNIVAC was built

By 1880, the U.S. population had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S. Census results. The government sought a faster way to get the job done, giving rise to punch-card based computers that took up entire rooms.

Today, we carry more computing power on our smartphones than was available in these early models. The following brief history of computing is a timeline of how computers evolved from their humble beginnings to the machines of today that surf the Internet, play games and stream multimedia in addition to crunching numbers.

1801: In France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs. Early computers would use similar punch cards.

1822: English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, the world's first computer was actually built.