First Software ever built? What came first the chicken or the egg?Wouldn't you need software to build software?

Question

I know we use text editors to write the program using a programming language. But how was the first ever program or an operating system built without the use of software or an operating system for that matter? Seems strange to me, the guys who done it must of had an IQ of a 1000 haha. Thanks for answering if you even so are capable of doing so. ;P

Answer 1

The first computers used banks of switches to input data and functions. The each on/off(1/0) switch state in a row determined the bit setting. By setting the switches and and submitting them, the computer would start processing and spit out the results. The switch settings were determined by hand and annotated on paper.



Later punch cards came along and were ran through mechanical readers which would set the appropriate switches for processing.

Answer 2

The first computer was Eniac, which consisted of a building full of vacuum tubes and wires that left very little room for human habitation. The wires were hooked up in series and the whole machine became the very first, if not most expensive, electronic calculator.

Answer 3

many early programs where punch cards. And they could only be run once. Pretty much a cardboard type card with holes punched in it.

Answer 4

chicken came first the chicken evolved from a dinosaur type creature it wasnt always just a chicken. like humans we came out of the ocean evolved into a monkey then a primate then a humam