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This Week in Tech: Programming Turns 70

April 12th, 1947: ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose programmable electronic computer, ran the first code written in the modern paradigm, marking the birth of computer programming as a profession.

This first test code ran computations for the hydrogen bomb.
ENIAC could perform complex coded operations like loops, seen today in languages like JavaScript, Ruby and Python.
These first professional programmers were all women, a fact that took 50 years to be recognized.
Coding ENIAC to solve a single problem would take weeks. Today, you can build a website in a matter of hours!

Nokia 3310 is making a comeback

Venturebeat reports that the phone’s comeback will be officially announced at the Mobile World Congress. The new incarnation of the 3310 is expected to retail at about €59 (R818).

The 3310 is certainly not a smartphone. The safe answer to whether it will come with all the modern bells and whistles is “no”.

Will it have WLAN? No. Bluetooth? No. GPS? No. Radio? No.

What is its camera like? There isn’t one.

Even the screen is monochrome.

So what does it have? While it is extremely basic‚ this is a phone you use to phone and text people and that is about it‚ it boasts a standby battery life that can last up to 245 hours‚ and a chassis that is famous for being nigh indestructible.

The Mobile World Congress will be in Barcelona‚ and run from 27 Feb to 2 March.

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