• legion02@lemmy.world
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    18 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.

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      18 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.”

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        17 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.