Audio Zepis Numr Trizy Dvid Kuprazniniu Adin when were the first computers built?0:00
I think in the middle of the previous century.0:10
Let's look it up in the encyclopedia.0:13
They were built in the 1950s.0:17
It's really strange that 60 years ago the general public didn't use computers.0:20
Only scientists used them in their work for their scientific purposes.0:27
Those first computers were huge machines that filled whole rooms.0:31
I'm sure that they were very pricey.0:36
They were very expensive indeed.0:39
I think their price was millions of dollars, not less.0:41
How effectively did they work?0:45
They functioned rather slowly.0:50
The the earliest computers solved less than a thousand tasks each second.0:52
Today, modern computers are very fast.0:57
They can solve a hundred million tasks a second.1:01
And they are fairly small.1:06
They are so small that we can use them anywhere.1:07
And they keep getting smaller.1:11
I think very soon our computers will be no larger than a matchbox.1:13
True, computers have really changed a lot since the day they appeared.1:18
They have become smaller, cheaper and faster.1:23
And scientists are working to make them even faster.1:27
But most important of all, practically anybody can have a computer nowadays.1:31
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