By Sarah Godfrey

•Konran Zuse was the first person to create the computer, which he called Z1 • The Z1 was built over four years and was finished in 1938•It was the first ever freely programmable computer•The most remarkable thing about the Z1 was that it has most of the components of a modern computer.

•Funding for the Z1 came from family, students and entrepreneur Kurt Pannk.•Z1 was built in Konran Zuse’s parent house•The Z1 was the first of four, with the Z2, Z3 and Z4 following.•During the bombardment of Berlin, 1943, the Z1 was destroyed •However in 1986, Konran reconstructed the Z1•The reconstruction is displayed in the German Museum of Technology

A computer is a freely progammable device, on which we can do almost anything, including shopping, chat to people that are across the other side of the world.