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The fact that you can name by memory the people that worked in the 40's means that the size of the computer science community back then was tiny.
by aortega 13y ago
The fact that you can name by memory the people that worked in the 40's means that the size of the computer science community back then was tiny.
- Gormo 13y agoHe didn't say that those were all of the people working on computers in the 40s.
- csixty4 13y agoExactly. Just like how history doesn't celebrate the names of everybody who worked for Thomas Edison, there were hundreds if not thousands of people toiling away in anonymity underneath these giants. Edit: And many more "giants", of course…