• lucas@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Well, it’s not really clear-cut, which is part of my point, but probably the 2 most significant people I could think of would be Babbage and Turing, both of whom were English. Definitely could make arguments about what is or isn’t considered a ‘computer’, to the point where it’s fuzzy, but regardless of how you look at it, ‘computers were invented in America’ is rather a stretch.

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      ‘computers were invented in America’ is rather a stretch.

      Which is why no one said that. I read most of the article and I’m still not sure what you were annoyed about. I didn’t see anything US-centric, or even anglocentric really.

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        1 year ago

        To say I’m annoyed would be very much overstating it, just a (very minor) eye-roll at one small line in a generally very good article. Just the bit quoted:

        currency symbols other than the $ (kind of tells you who invented computers, doesn’t it?)

        So they could also be attributing it to some other country that uses $ for their currency, which is a few, but it seems most likely to be suggesting USD.