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Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002) Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998) Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017) Commodore 64; Macintosh 128K; NeXT Computer; Silicon Valley (2014 - 2019) Valley of the Boom (2019) The IT Crowd (2006-2013)
The ENIAC (1946) was the first automatic computer that was both electronic and general-purpose. It was Turing complete , with conditional branching, and programmable to solve a wide range of problems, but its program was held in the state of switches in patch cords, rather than machine-changeable memory, and it could take several days to ...
ENIAC (/ ˈ ɛ n i æ k /; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) [1] [2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Bachelor's Daughters: Andrew L. Stone: Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Ann Dvorak: Comedy: United Artists: Bad Bascomb: S. Sylvan Simon: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main
The Tabernacle, artificial intelligence controlling The Vortexes in the movie Zardoz (1974) Zero, the computer which holds the sum total of human knowledge, in the movie Rollerball (1975) Computer, Citadel's central computer and "Sandman" computer, that sends Logan on a mission outside of the city in the film Logan's Run (1976)
1995: Company reaches one million users. 1996 : America Online ditches its original pay-per-hour pay system in favor of a flat, $19.95 monthly fee, effectively beginning the modern internet era .
February 14 - Charles Vidor's Gilda starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford shows audiences one of the most famous scenes of the 20th century: Rita Hayworth singing "Put The Blame On Mame". November 21 – William Wyler 's The Best Years of Our Lives premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March , Myrna Loy , Dana ...
First African-American man to receive an Academy Award: James Baskett (Academy Honorary Award for his portrayal of "Uncle Remus" in Song of the South, 1946) (See also: Sidney Poitier, 1964) The first British Academy Film Awards ceremony takes place with The Best Years of Our Lives , winning the award for best film .