The Complete History of Computers & Computing
Become AI Fluent - The First StepBy Tania Maries
Length43m
About this audiobook
The Complete History of Computers: From Gears to Artificial Intelligence
From wooden gears and punch-card looms to pocket supercomputers and AI that can write, see, and reason — this is the complete story of how humanity built the thinking machine.
The Complete History of Computers traces two centuries of relentless innovation, beginning with Charles Babbage's mechanical dreams in the 1820s and Ada Lovelace's first computer program, through the room-sized wartime machines that cracked enemy codes, to the transistor that changed everything. Discover how a single theorem by a 21-year-old MIT student in 1937 became the blueprint for every computer ever built, how a chip the size of a postage stamp ignited the personal computing revolution, and how billions of people became connected through a network born from a Cold War thought experiment.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Education and Learning
Length43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2About the book
3Introduction: From Dream to Digital
4Chapter 1: Gears, Looms, and the Dream of a Thinking Machine
5Chapter 2: Electricity, Switches, and the Language of Ones and Zeros
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6Chapter 3: Room-Sized Machines That Won a War
7Chapter 4: A Tiny Invention That Changed Everything
8Chapter 5: Shrinking Circuits and the Birth of Personal Computing
9Chapter 6: How the Machine on Your Desk Actually Works
10Chapter 7: How Computers Learned to Talk to Each Other
11Chapter 8: Pocket Computers, the Cloud, and M
12Conclusion: Abstraction Building on Abstraction
13About the Author
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