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But this quirky moniker has so many explanations, its story has almost descended into myth. But this explanation has only appeared in one dictionary. The OED proffers the story that fans of native American athlete Jim Thorpe — who was stripped of his Olympic medals due to ineligibility for having done a stint in professional basketball — at Bell Labs named the symbol after him.
Scunthorpe , and the criss-cross pattern of the hash sign suggesting a plot of eight fields surrounding a village. So once the octothorpe, which no one outside of computing or telecoms knew was called the octothorpe, was a fully-fledged button and key, it stayed that way.
Never quite superfluous, but also a bit of a mystery, it sat forever at the tips of our fingers, rarely being deployed.
I ask Robert Fulford, Canadian journalist, author and symbol obsessive, about the enduring allure of the symbol.
And as we know, inequality has become the great problem of the last 18 months or so, and that is a visual reminder of equality. Perhaps this zeitgeisty aspect pointed out by Fulford was a factor in the hash finding its celebrity status. Its use as a hashtag on Twitter has brought the unassuming little pattern worldwide acclaim. It has crawled out on eight legs from numerical obscurity to a world of flashy hour media attention.
As in barcamp [msg]? Twitter eventually acquired several companies and apps Tweetie and Summize in particular — a Mac app and Twitter search engine respectively that had already supported hashtags.
The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse. The computer operated like many computers today utilizing windows , menus , and icons as an interface to its operating system. Intel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel , on November 15, Considered as the first microcomputer, it used the Intel processor and was the first commercial non-assembly computer.
In , Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights. The IBM is the first portable computer, which was released in September The computer weighed pounds and had a five-inch CRT display, tape drive , 1.
The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I , which was released in April and developed by Adam Osborne. The Osborne I weighed The computer kit was developed by Steve Wozniak in and contained a 8-bit processor and 4 kb of memory, which was expandable to 8 or 48 kb using expansion cards. Although the Apple I had a fully assembled circuit board, the kit required a power supply , display , keyboard , and case to be operational.
Below is a picture of an Apple I from an advertisement by Apple. The computer was code-named Acorn. When was the first computer invented? Note Early inventions that lead up to the computer, such as the abacus , astrolabe, slide rule , clocks, calculator , and tablet machines, are not accounted for on this page. When was the word "computer" first used?
First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept. First general-purpose computer. The first machine to record and store information. First programmable computer. First concepts of what we consider a modern computer. The first electric programmable computer. The first digital computer. The first stored program computer. The first computer company. First computer with a program stored in memory. First commercial computer. IBM's first computer. The first computer with RAM.
The first transistor computer. The first minicomputer.
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