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.
The first computer mouse. The first computer mouse was invented in 1963 by Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute. (He is also one of the inventors of hypertext.) The first mouse used two wheels positioned at a 90-degree angle to each other to keep track of the movement (see picture below).he IBM Personal Computer was introduced in 1981 as the IBM 5150. The platform became so pervasive in the 80s that although the term âpersonal computerâ had been in use since the early 70s, a PC became synonymous with an IBM PC-compatible computer.