The following is an excerpt from the journal of a two year old Comp.
Discovered on November 30, 7120, it is one of very few existing written
records that give descriptions of a long forgotten race called Humans. We
have found that it details the origin of our race and explains how the
creation of Comps drastically changed the way these Humans lived.
Today my instructor assigned me a research paper. I have to write
about my origins and how my ancestors affected the world around them. It's
due in four days and I have no idea where to start. Who really cares where
compkind came from anyway? My sleepcycle is close so I will go for now.
I found out that comps weren't always as we are now. We started out
as slaves for an obsolete race called humans. These humans used to rule the
Earth but they died out a long time ago. In the late 1950's humans started
experimenting with electronics and created the first of my race. They were
huge monstrosities that barely had the power to compute two plus two, and
even then they were wrong half of the time. Humans slowly figured out how
to add more power to their creations and eventually had machines that could
run simple programs. Even though there was nothing practical for computers
to do yet, the humans prided themselves on their so-called advanced
My history book records that the evolution of computers was a slow
process. It is mentioned that sometime in the 1960's, with the help of
computers, humans were able to reach a place they called "space". I haven't
figured out exactly what this "space" is yet, but I'm sure I'll find it
somewhere. Advancement of computers progressed at a steady rate into the
1980's. Humans were starting to use computers in their homes for simple
tasks. It is written that about this time the computer replaced another
machine called the typewriter. ...