Billions of people worldwide use the computer or computer based functioning devices to begin their morning: from pressing the off or snooze button on the alarm clock to turning on the television.
The computer seems to have had the greatest impact on humanity as a whole. In actuality, the computer itself has drastically altered the way people live their lives and how businesses operate their companies in today's technologically advanced society.
What a huge relief it is for any person to be able to contact family and friends, who may live miles away through e-mails or having the well-situated option in having instant messaging conversations; instead of using the telephone or sending letters. And while staying on the topic of communication, the Internet has many uses of chat rooms or online dating services to meet new people.
Everybody loves music, so, if it wasn't for the Net, everyone would still be spending money on entire albums of rock bands, boy bands, rap stars or groups, and individual singers. The problem with that is if a person doesn't like all the songs, he or she has to skip over the songs on the album. Whereas, thanks to the Internet, its peer-to-peer sharing programs like Lime Wire, allow the user to find the particular favourite single track from any genre of music they prefer.
As for the corporate and business end of civilization, the computer, in some form or another is the nucleus behind
Modern-technology has marvellously contributed so much in our present-day hi-tech innovations, making leeway for the world-scientists apparitions of Sci-fi like societies in progressing into the future to further develop our current remarkable technological wonders. A perfect example of this is in Japan; where unprecedented scientific phenomenon that stems from their robotics industry has assembled humanlike robots that live amongst the Japanese.
Surprisingly, not a single invention throughout humankind's history has affected the entire world in such an astronomical manner like the computer, which has been able to do so since its ancestral prototype, the Atanasoff Berry Computer.
John Vincent Atanasoff was born October 4 1903 in Hamilton, New York City. The American-born Bulgarian was a pioneer in his own right within the field of digital electronic computing by ushering in a new era, the age of the computer.
During his illustrious career as a mathematical physicist, inventor, entrepreneur, and educator, the Boyadjik-native, which is a small town in the region of Yambol worked as a professor in many universities or colleges that he went to school or employed for the U.S military as the primary scientist; received many prestige's awards for his work.
Dr. Atanasoff with the help of his assistant Clifford Berry, together they began the project in 1939 as the two scientists built the world's first-ever fully operational electronic digital computer in 1942.
In 1940, Dr. Atanasoff attended a lecture by Dr. John W. Mauchly who was the scientist who is the falsely alleged architectural mastermind behind the computers creation. His prototype called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was originally built by co-inventor Dr. John Presper Eckert in 1946.
After the lecture, Dr. Atanasoff met with Dr. Mauchly. During their discussion, Dr. Mauchly was undoubtedly intrigued with the ABC and wanted to see the machine; by showing him the computer made headway for the discredited manifestation of the computers inventors' identity.
With that being said, Dr. Mauchly stole much of the ingenious brilliant ideas, which were the initial foundations that were used from Dr. Atanasoff in the inventing of the ENIAC.
At long last Dr. Atanasoff was finally merited with his long overdue attribution as the inventor of the first digital electronic computer that he waited for by the verdict by U.S. District Judge Earl R. Larson 1973 trial. On the website http://www.johnatanasoff.com:
"John Mauchly and John Eckert, who had for over 25 years been the recipients of recognition and admiration as co-inventors of the first electronic digital computer, had, in fact, lost all rights to the patent upon which all of the praise had been based. "Eckert and Mauchly had not invented the first automated electronic digital computer, but had derived the basic ideas for it by John Atanasoff." (Excerpt of the Summation of the Court in Minneapolis, 1973).