A brief history of computing and associated shit
Where did it all begin? Most would attribute Charles Babbage, a squiggly old guy who looks like Whistler’s mom without the cape, with the nobel idea of inventing the box. Some would call Ada Lovelace (what ho, babe? ooooh behaaave!), the Mother of modern computing. Sometimes I wonder what the kids would look like if Cabbage and Lace-woman had gotten married. A few theories put the blame on the ancient Chinese to have unassumingly hinted at faster computations with their cool, beady wireframe-y calculators. Still time travelling further into the past, we see this Middle Eastern dude, with a very complicated name, coming up with the fundae of algorithms (my favorite subject throughout CS…although one almost flunked in it!) Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi (whew!) did a lot of mambojambo in a lot of fields before he found his true calling and wrote a book called Hisab o Jabr o Muqabele (sexy name dontcha think?)
Well…I hope that has caught your attention. My posts hardly gather much attention unless I garnish it with some unnecessary trivia like that. But not digressing from the crux of the matter, I want to sketch out the progress of the Biege Box through the past few decades. Right from the time IBM put it into the high profile university labs, till today, when we have employees spilling coffee onto their laptops while opening a “Fwd:” sent by a friend in an unsuccessful attempt to surf single handedly 
(Eeewww…gross)
