• samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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    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
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      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
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        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
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          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.