The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations, was the first ... one drawback. In January of 1954, supported by the military, engineers from Bell Labs built the first ...

The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon). Unlike the ...

as well as the first microprocessor unit (MPU) ever demonstrated, beating the Intel 4004 by a year. In 1971, one of the designers of the F-14’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC) – [Ray Holt ...

The first computer mouse was invented in the early 1960s ... a rectangular wooden shell with two metal wheels inside – one for the X axis and one for the Y axis. The device had just one button ...