Long before silicon chips or copper wiring, the Inca built something that functioned remarkably like an information system. This device of knotted cotton and camelid fiber, long thought by researchers ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there's an ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a room-sized machine built ...

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. When people think of computers, they picture ...