Now let's use your (possibly) new-found browsing skills to explore pages of interest from all around the WWW¹. In keeping with the theme of this module, we'll concentrate on pages like those listed below that describe some aspect of the history of computing.

50 Years In Computing

Charles Babbage Institute

British National Museum of Science and Industry

Alan Turing Home page

The History of Computing

Your job is to examine these sites, and any others you come across in your browsing travels, to produce a list of ten historical facts about computers, computing, or the people involved in advancing the discipline. Each fact should be something you didn't know before you began this exercise, and something that isn't described in of our text.