Hey, great post, lots of useful information, but i just wanted to add something: Charles Babbage. I'm not sure if anyone else knew this or not, but alot of people regard him as the very first inventor of the first "computer". He thought it up in the 1800's, so it certainly was'nt anything like modern computers, his calculating engines were'nt even electric but none the less, they were the basis for computers. sry i don't have any links, search google, there's hundreds of sites about the subject.