Science Memes

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, there were plenty of precursors (hence the MB was arguably the first). But the Manchester Baby was the first stored-program general purpose computer. Gotta pick a point somewhere.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I think it's a fun debate between all of them. It doesn't really matter, but I enjoy reading the reasoning behind each argument.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the whole history is fascinating. I also like to remind my college students that computer science/engineering is one of the rare branches of science/engineering that was founded at least in equal part by women, if not more (again, an arguable point, but undeniable that there is a larger influence from women compared to other scientific disciplines).

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Colossus is still early then all of those are we still really don't know exactly when construction started because of state secrets and whatnot.

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[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Not one I was familiar with, thanks for sharing!