Who Invented the First Computer
October 8, 2008 · Filed Under Technology · 2 Comments
Ok well yesterday in the US presidential debate Barack Obama said the computer was invented as a government project:
“The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defence purposes, how to communicate”
I’d just like to clear up that the first computers were NOT invented by the US government – so go get a history lesson (actually he was probably thinking about communication through the internet, which was a project by the US defence organization).
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