Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...
In 1901, sponge divers working a wreck off a small Greek island pulled up a lump of corroded bronze that looked like little more than debris. Only later did its true nature emerge, revealing a geared ...
(via Hard Reset) What if the next big technology was actually a pretty old technology? The first computers ever built were analog, and a return to analog processing might allow us to rebuild computing ...