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There is no noun with the ability to represent modern life other than
computer. Whether the effect is negative or positive, computers control nearly
every aspect of our everyday life. Computers have evolved from bearing the role
of strictly computing to having the ability of completing unthinkable tasks.
Supermarket scanners calculate our grocery bill while keeping store inventory;
computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and
keep lines of communication untangled; and ATM's let us conduct banking
transactions form virtually anywhere in the world.
Around five thousand years ago in Asia , a simple machine called the
Abacus , bearing a system of sliding beads arranged on a rack such as ones found
in a pool hall may be considered the first computer. Merchants used the Abacus to
record their barter transactions. Its popularity began to fall when the use of paper
and pencil spread particularly throughout Europe, its importance......

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