Computer History
I apologize for the lack of pictures I will have some soon (if the wonderfull google image search will save me and get me what I need)
The first computer was wood, shaped in a rectangle frame, with horisontal bars that hold beeds. This is what people used to use to solve math problems. It was known as the abacus.
After the abacus came the computer that used punch cards. Then there was a slightly more high-tech computer wich filled an entire room. The scientests running one of these huge machines one day found that it was having problems. It wasn't working, and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. they opened it up and looked through all it's guts and found a moth, thus the term computer bug was born. A virus is not the same thing as a bug, bugs are acidentel little hicups in the computer sistem, and viruses are intentional programs that attack the computer.
Out of this huge computer came the PC or personal computer. However since windows hadn't come along yet, these computers ran a completely text operating system known as dos.
Suddenly games came along. The first computer games were called text games. Text games were entirly wrighting, no pictures, just words, but usualy very discriptive words. Some of the most popular text games were made by Infocom, such as zork. You can still download these ancient games at the infocom main page.
Soon after games came the mouse, although unlike the arrow you usualy see on your screen today, the curser (not "arrow pointer" as you may have been told by some teacher), was a little rectangle. Unless you were playing one of those new games with pictures, then it was whatever the programers wanted it to be.
Soon microsoft came along with windows. However unlike the windows we know today, there was no task bar; and the only thing on the desktop was a small icon to take you to the rest of your files. The programs for it were simple, like the first versions of paint and some little games like ski free. Personaly, when the first windows came out, I hated it, it was ugly and I couldn't have conversations with people in my text games. But after I saw all the new games there were for it, I couldn't resist. And thats how windows took over every computer. It was new, it was different, and it had so many programs and games that everyone wanted one of these computers. And then came the task bar and the actual desktop. No longer was everything in the same window, but you could have lots of windows holding idferent items the desktop could be customized and everything was different once more in the world of computers.
Oh but how rude of me to leave out the macintoshes. They were made around the time windows was. But the funny thing about macintoshes is, they haven't changed. The only thing they've realy changed about macintoshes is how many programs there are for it and what color it is. So theres not much to say.
Programing
computer graphics
computer games