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This nation gave us the first mecahnical computer, the first programming language, Alan Turing, the first digital computer, broke the Enigma encryption, and the
by FredPret 3y ago
This nation gave us the first mecahnical computer, the first programming language, Alan Turing, the first digital computer, broke the Enigma encryption, and the World Wide Web… and now, this.
- defrost 3y ago> broke the Enigma encryption Poland? > and the World Wide Web CERN is a country?
- djohnston 3y agoPoland broke Enigma? Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale? CERN is not a country. Neither is Tim Berners Lee for that matter.
- defrost 3y agoSpecifically Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski - they even built the first bombe machines which were scaled up at Bletchley park. > Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale? More the common mythology about Turing that gets repeated by people that never checked the details. Bletchley Park was real and people like Bill Tutte cracked encryption methods more difficult than Enigma. Tim Berners Lee alone, without being part of a vast group that adopted and used WWW, wasn't sufficient for WWW to take hold. There were many proto markup attempts, he authored one but it needed soil to grow, s/soil/CERN/.
- tcptomato 3y ago> the first digital computer Z3?
- jjgreen 3y agoI guess they mean Colossus (1943) but debatable https://www.britannica.com/technology/Atanasoff-Berry-Computer https://www.britannica.com/technology/Atanasoff-Berry-Comput...