--- title: Computers and the internet — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Computers and the internet», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer program, for a calculating machine that Charles Babbage designed but never fi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Computers and the internet # Computers and the internet Lesson 36 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/0/) — In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer program, for a calculating machine that Charles Babbage designed but never finished, and she imagined that one day machines might even make music. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/1/) — The first electronic computers of the 1940s filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge sums; at Bletchley Park in Britain, Alan Turing helped break secret German codes in the Second World War. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/2/) — The microchip packed many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon, which is why the phone in your pocket is millions of times more powerful than those room-sized machines. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/3/) — The internet began in 1969 by linking a few American university computers, and in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web of pages and links and gave it to the world for free. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/4/) — Games grew from Pong's two bats and a dot in 1972 to Europa Universalis, but history games simplify the past, and online, just like a historian, you must check your sources. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/5/) — In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer program, for Charles Babbage's planned calculating machine, which was never finished. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/6/) — Ada Lovelace imagined that computers could one day do more than numbers, even make music. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/7/) — The first electronic computers, in the 1940s, filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge calculations. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/8/) — Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and described how computers could work and even think, ideas at the base of computer science. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/9/) — In the late 1950s engineers invented the microchip, which put many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/10/) — Microchips made computers small and cheap enough for homes, cars and phones, and a phone today is millions of times more powerful than the first computers. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/11/) — From the late 1970s companies such as Apple, IBM and Microsoft made computers and software for homes and offices. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/12/) — The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/13/) — In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web of pages and links, and it was given to the world for free. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/14/) — The first mobile phones in the 1980s were as big as bricks, and from 2007 smartphones with touch screens began to spread. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/15/) — Pong, from 1972, was one of the first popular video games, and later came history games like Civilization and Europa Universalis, which simplify and sometimes change real history. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/16/) — The internet brought video calls, online shops and encyclopedias, but also scams and false news, so checking sources is an important skill. - ← previous: [Space: from Sputnik to the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/) - next →: [Britain and Ireland: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)