• legion02@lemmy.world
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      9 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
        1·
        9 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·
          9 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
            1·
            9 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·
              8 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.