From the super nerd vault comes an interesting piece of news today. The Integrated Circuit (IC) turned 50 on the 12th of September this year. Why is that interesting you might say well see that ugly looking thing above/left, that's the first IC which was created by Jack Kilby. This unassuming bit of wiring and other bits ended up having a huge effect in taking the then house-sized computers to the tiny circuits we now have in pretty much everything from your iPod to your car's fuel guage.To quote Engadget, "As the story goes, the very first microchip was demonstrated on the 12th of September in 1958, and it passed its first test: "producing a sine wave on an oscilloscope screen." Doesn't sound like much but you can thank the brains behind this sine wave generator for the computer you are currently reading this on.
hip-hip... HOORAY!
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