Computers filled rooms back when the boomers (and earlier gens) were creating them, so even a desktop isn't how they were known then. But it laid the groundwork.

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Was Franklin laying the groundwork for computers as we know them when he discovered electricity? You have to cut things off somewhere for a statement like that.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It could be said so, but it's a much, much more distant connection than working on things that are literally called "computers."

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

So then the Greek Antikythera mechanism counts too then? Or maybe the Bell transistor. My point is that none of these things resemble computers as we know them.