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A lot of college students are shockingly ignorant regardless. I got my Master's in CS at one of the top ten schools in the country. One of the students didn't understand that Steve Jobs didn't invent computers. Not modify them, not work on them- she thought he invented them outright. That before his birth there was nothing resembling computers. This was in a Computer Science program.
All tech comes from military research...
Technically the first computer came from Charles Babbage, a briton, but she really thought computers didn't exist up until twenty or so years ago.
Gotcha. That’s unreal. Mechanical computers have been around forever, as well.. apples and oranges kinda but still “computer”
LOL. I knew a guy that told me that his first job was roller skating back and forth in front of a computer, changing the tubes that had burned out. He carried two bags. One with new tubes and the other to hold the burnt out tubes. It was in the 80's when he told me about it. The job was back in the 50's.
I was going to say, those tube computers were a loooong time ago. If he still had one he could sell it for a good chunk of change. I know computer nerds would jizz all over having one of those.
Well let me explain a little better. This "computer" was three stories tall. Three younger guys were hired to do nothing else but change the tubes on their assigned "floor"! I Really don't think that a computer nerd would be able to fit it in their house! But with some of the nerds that hit it Big, you don't know! They might have houses big enough to hold it.
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