AdvertisementHow The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It IsOctober 06, 2014facebookEmailIn the early days, Walter Isaacson says, computers were "big ol' things with vacuum tubes" that took up entire rooms. For example, the electric analog computer named ANACOM (shown here in 1950 at Caltech) weighed 6,000 pounds and filled 13 cabinets. (AP)