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...wait, didn't we have taxi's before computers? Rickshaw, Japan, 1860?
by ponderings 3y ago
...wait, didn't we have taxi's before computers? Rickshaw, Japan, 1860?
- mdwalters 3y agoThe first (mechanical) computer was made in 1822, and the computer has origins dating back to the 17th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
- TeMPOraL 3y agoThen again, taxis date back to at least Ancient Rome (IIRC they found a taximeter device using pebbles to count wheel rotations). And arguably, knowing humans, as soon as we figured out how to reliably use an animal to move a person, someone started offering moving people in exchange for money...
- ponderings 3y agoThe Antikythera mechanism suggests quite a bit of previous art. Making a device for counting wheel rotations wouldn't be very difficult. You could do the billing on a wheel too! One set for each customer! But it would be easier to just do the billing by carving it into a clay tablet.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoI feel like the killer app for taxi services was central radio dispatch.