08/03/2026
ENIAC (1945) one of the very first electronic computers.
Built at the University of Pennsylvania by engineers John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert during World War II, it filled an entire room and ran on 18,000 vacuum tubes.
But the real twist: much of the programming was done by a team of brilliant women, including Jean Bartik and Betty Holberton, who had to invent programming as they went.
A gigantic machine… that quietly became the starting point for everything, including the phone you’re probably looking at this on…