Computers: The Greatest Invention

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In today’s generation we are struck with the ongoing responsibility of pushing the limit of our knowledge. The first personal computer was released in 1977 labeled as "the home computer that's ready to work, play, and grow with you.” Even within the first computer there were applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and databases. This was an extremely important asset in the eyes of businesses from around the world, making its market industry flourish. The next two decades afterwards, the computer has undeniably evolved faster than any other piece of technology. Chips, processors, hardware, operating systems and memory and storage space continues to advance every single year and is getting to become something that is hard for us to keep up with. In general, the computer is at the point in our time that it serves as an extra brain. We are able to organize, manage and calculate our knowledge with various methods using a computer. This is why computers are the greatest engineering invention of the 20th century. Computers have almost countless benefits that aid us in several fields. Businesses are able to efficiently manage all of their numbers and data through applications on a computer. Personal uses for the computer are almost unlimited. The most beneficial part about the computer is that you are able to access the internet. Whether it is a simple question or you are having problems with setting up technology, all of your questions can be answered with a few strokes of your keyboard. You are able to communicate with anyone around the world free of charge. Besides the limitless potentials of the internet, with a computer you have access to millions of applications with various possibilities. You are able to create documents twice as fast typing as you can write. Today, computers just need 1 second to perform several hundred trillion mathematical operations.
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