Computers

How email works?

Almost all the internet users are sending billions of e-mails every day because it is a very easy and cheap way of communication but have we ever thought that how it works? Earlier we had to send letters for the communication which took some days […]

Who invented the computer?

The computer was invented in the year 1822 by Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and philosopher. He is considered as ‘The father of computers’. Although many have contributed to the invention of computer, the credit goes to Charles Babbage for inventing programmable computers. The electronic […]

Who invented Fortran?

FORTRAN or Formula Translator language was invented by John Backus in 1954 for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation). John Backus, a popular American computer scientist worked with a team of other scientists to come up with a general purpose programming language called Fortran as an […]