• FizzyOrange@programming.dev
      5·
      17 hours ago

      Well, at a low level they are still basically the same. x86 still starts in 16-bit real mode. Mice still use USB 1 from the 90s.

      Mostly it’s just a lot faster and covered with more layers of abstraction.

      • legion02@lemmy.world
        4·
        15 hours ago

        But you don’t know what I mean. Computers as most people know them now are tablets and cell phones. I blame X and the elder millennials for that.

        • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          15 hours ago

          Computers filled rooms back when the boomers (and earlier gens) were creating them, so even a desktop isn’t how they were known then. But it laid the groundwork.

          • legion02@lemmy.world
            1·
            15 hours ago

            Was Franklin laying the groundwork for computers as we know them when he discovered electricity? You have to cut things off somewhere for a statement like that.

            • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              15 hours ago

              It could be said so, but it’s a much, much more distant connection than working on things that are literally called “computers.”

              • legion02@lemmy.world
                1·
                15 hours ago

                So then the Greek Antikythera mechanism counts too then? Or maybe the Bell transistor. My point is that none of these things resemble computers as we know them.