Amaya Toman Emuva kwethu namuhla, sizokhumbula usuku lapho ikhompuyutha ye-UNIVAC ilethwa e-US Census Bureau. Lokhu kwenzeka ngo-March 1951, kodwa lo mshini kwadingeka ulinde isikhathi esithile ukuze uqale ukusebenza. Engxenyeni yesibili, sikhumbula i-virtual interactive encyclopedia Encarta evela kuworkshop ye-Microsoft.
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Ikhompyutha ye-UNIVAC (1951)
Ngo-March 30, 1951, ikhompuyutha ye-UNIVAC yathunyelwa e-US Census Bureau. Igama elithi UNIVAC lalimfushane elithi "UNIVERsal Automatic Computer", futhi kwakuyikhompiyutha yokuqala ekhiqizwe ngobuningi ekhiqizwa e-United States. Ikhompyutha yaqala ukusebenza ngo-June 14, 1951. U-J. Presper Eckert kanye no-John Mauchly babeyimbangela yokwakhiwa kwekhompyutha ye-UNIVAC. Ukulethwa kwe-UNIVAC yokuqala ku-Census Bureau kuhambisane nomcimbi obubanjelwe efektri yase-Eckert–Mauchl.
I-Encarta Ends (2009)
NgoMashi 30, 2009, inkonzo ye-Encarta yayekwa. I-Microsoft Encarta kwakuyi-multimedia digital encyclopedia esetshenziswa yi-Microsoft kusukela ngo-1993 kuya ku-2009. I-Encarta ekuqaleni yasatshalaliswa ku-CD-ROM ne-DVD, kodwa kamuva yenziwa yatholakala kuwebhu ngokubhalisa konyaka. Ngemva kwesikhathi esithile, iMicrosoft iphinde yakhipha ezinye zezindatshana ku-Encarta ukuze zifundwe mahhala. I-Encarta ikhule kancane ngokuhamba kweminyaka, futhi ngo-2008 ungathola izindatshana ezingaphezu kuka-62, izithombe eziningi, imidwebo, iziqeshana zomculo, amavidiyo, okuqukethwe okusebenzisanayo, amamephu, nokuningi. Ngaphansi kohlobo lwe-Encarta, ama-encyclopedia ashicilelwe ngesiJalimane, isiFulentshi, iSpanishi, isiNtaliyane, isiPutukezi kanye nenani lezinye izilimi.
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- Ababoshiwe bokugcina baqale inkonzo yabo yezempi eyisisekelo eButhweni Lezempi laseCzech Republic. Ngemuva kokuthi bededelwe baphile impilo yobusha ngo-December 21 wonyaka ofanayo, ukubuthwa okujwayelekile kuyeka ukusebenza e-Czech Republic. (12)
