Computing Quizzes, Questions & Answers

Computing has a lot of definitions and differences but it generally involves designing, developing and building hardware and software, and using information to arrive at some kind of computation or end result. Do you know when the first abacus was invented? If you aren’t sure what an abacus even is, it’s an early calculator used for simple math computing.
 
More complex machines were created by the Greeks, like the Antikythera mechanism, which used gears and calculators to calculate astronomical positions, eclipses, and the dates of Olympic Games. Do you know when the home computer as we know it today was invented? If you’re ready to put your computing knowledge to the test, we dare you to compute our quizzes – they might just be the challenge you’ve been looking for!  Read less