John has been a common given name in English-speaking countries, and either it or William was the number one name in England and English-speaking North America from around 1550 until the middle of the 20th century.n Welsh, the name John is rendered as Ieuan (pronounced as Yay-an or Yey-an), and as Ifan (pronounced IV-an), Ianto (pronounced as Yan-to) or Ioan (pronounced as Yo-an) or Sion (siÃ´n pronounced As-sh). On ifan eventually became rendered Into english As. evan
1 Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable computer in about 1825. 2  It partly depends on what you mean by computer, but the earliest claim is that Charles Babbage invented the first programmable computer in 1822. The first patent for a working computer (outside the military) was the UNIVAC, created by Drs. 2  John Mauchly and Presper Eckert in 1948. 3  They formed the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, which was bought in 1950 (just as they were on the verge of bankruptcy) by Remington Rand.
At first, these were purely mechanical, but by the start of the twentieth century, they were run by steam.     The first of the modern computers was invented during World War II, in 1941 by a German engineer named Konrad Zuse.The computer was called the Z3 and was used to help design German airplanes and missles. Still others will say the abacus is the first computer. They were  invented by the Chinese between 2600 BC and 300 BC is considered as  the first computer ever. Abacus was used by the merchants and  Clerks in China.