• legion02@lemmy.world
    4·
    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·
        8 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·
          8 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.