Unit 2 Intro

The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room in 1936 to 1938 and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first functional computer.​

It was a Memory Card peripheral by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation home video game console.

​The tech company IBM is widely credited with developing the world's first smartphone – the bulky but rather cutely named Simon. It went on sale in 1994 and featured a touchscreen, email capability and a handful of built-in apps, including a calculator and a sketch pad.

​What did you like doing when you were children?