ENIAC, the world’s first electronic, large scale, general-purpose computer, was activated at the University of Pennsylvania on February 14, 1946. Since then, computers have gotten smaller, more powerful and nearly ubiquitous. But as the following sites all point out, computing didn’t begin a mere half-century ago, but rather thousands of years ago. Follow me to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"