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[Me Ed]

Charles Babbage, "the father of the computer", invented the programmable computer.

[bill cobbett]

Whilst the British showcased their music with an impressive set at the London Olympics, why was a dutchman hired to flip records at the 2004 Athens Olympics?

Psst Me Ed .... don't whatever you do tell the Greeks who were leading members of the Artistic Production of the Atheneucia Opening Ceremony.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Charles Babbage, "the father of the computer", invented the programmable computer.

If someone were to ask you to name the world's oldest computer, you'd probably mention The Babbage Engine, Konrad Zuse's Z3 or The UK's Colossus. If you were asked when humanity built the first computing device, your estimates wouldn't go higher than a few hundred years or so.

What if I told you that there exists a computer system that was operational almost two thousand years ago?

Read and weep!

http://inventorspot.com/articles/worlds ... _mechanism

(Me Ed, you must love egg because you've had so much thrown on your face recently - and yet you keep coming back for more. )

[Get Real!]

The Antikythera must be a stupid hoax.

How do you go from inspecting this heap of shit...

http://unitedcats.files.wordpress.com/2 ... device.jpg

...to supposedly "reconstructing" it as this:

http://s2.hubimg.com/u/2533929_f260.jpg

[bill cobbett]

The Antikythera must be a stupid hoax.

How do you go from inspecting this heap of shit...

http://unitedcats.files.wordpress.com/2 ... device.jpg

...to supposedly "reconstructing" it as this:

http://s2.hubimg.com/u/2533929_f260.jpg

Well, what's with GiG's scam of trying to pass off an astronomical clock as a "programmable computer" ... tut, tut, click, clock

[ZoC]

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sir edmond harilaos smythe-hadjistili (1852-1923)
uk cypriot inventor of the cathode-ray-no-one-gives-a-flying-f*ck machine

"a man may preoccupy himself with things pointless and fanciful, but he can only strive for betterment with things that are worthy and true. i can calculate the mechanics of lionesque endeavour, but not that of sheeplike stupidity."

[kimon07]

Any comments about the opening ceremony?

[bill cobbett]

Any comments about the opening ceremony?

Well yes, there are some interesting historical observations would like to make... but the greedy, we invented everything in a couple of decades of the Fifth Century greeks are hijacking yet another thread... again.

[kimon07]

Any comments about the opening ceremony?

Well yes, there are some interesting historical observations would like to make... but the greedy, we invented everything in a couple of decades of the Fifth Century greeks are hijacking yet another thread... again.

No the thread was hijacked by Ed and GR.

[bill cobbett]

Any comments about the opening ceremony?

Well yes, there are some interesting historical observations would like to make... but the greedy, we invented everything in a couple of decades of the Fifth Century greeks are hijacking yet another thread... again.

No the thread was hijacked by Ed and GR.

HDY!!!! claim that the thread was hijacked by the impartial and independently thinking Me Ed and GR.

Well anyway, will make interesting and generally authoritative historical observations on 18th and 19th Century English History in the other thread later. Some of you scabby lot may find them of interest... if the flipping greeks could keep their distance.