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Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
The Man Who Invented the Computer is a 2010 historical biography by author Jane Smiley about American physicist John Vincent Atanasoff and the invention of the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the 1942 Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital computing device.
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) The Questor Tapes (1974) Demon Seed (1977) Blade Runner (1982) Tron (1982) WarGames (1983) Brainstorm (1983) 2010 (1984) HAL 9000; SAL 9000; Hide and Seek (1984, TV movie) Electric Dreams (1984) The Terminator (1984) Terminator; Skynet; D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) Flight of the ...
Drew Struzan (/ ˈ s t r uː z ən /; born March 18, 1947 [1]) is an American artist, illustrator and cover designer.He is known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, as well as films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars film series. [2]
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385527132. OCLC 502029794 – via Internet Archive. Media. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Hollar, John (January 27, 2011). Revolutionaries: The Man Who Invented the Computer with Author Jane Smiley. YouTube (video).
Old Man In The Cave, a computer that guided a post-apocalyptic town of survivors on what foods were safe to eat Twilight Zone series season 5 episode 7 "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963) Batcomputer , large punched card mainframe depicted in the television series Batman , introduced by series producers William Dozier and Howard Horowitz (1964)
The NeXT Computer was introduced in 1988 at a lavish launch event. Using the NeXT Computer, Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, the WorldWideWeb. The NeXT Computer's operating system, named NeXTSTEP, begat Darwin, which is now the foundation of most of Apple's operating systems such as Macintosh's macOS and iPhone's iOS. [268 ...
The world's first film poster (to date), for 1895's L'Arroseur arrosé, by the Lumière brothers Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand, 1922. The first poster for a specific film, rather than a "magic lantern show", was based on an illustration by Marcellin Auzolle to promote the showing of the Lumiere Brothers film L'Arroseur arrosé at the Grand Café in Paris on December 26, 1895.