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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
LOL if you are connected to the internet with a Difference Engine then by George I think you're onto something.
Honesly I don't understand the logic where you discredit the fact that the first electronic computer was design and built at the Unversity of Pennsylvania, because someone built a mechanical computer. By all rights you should attribute the first computer to the Greeks not the English.
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Well you did say 'first computer' and not 'first electronic computer'. But even then ENIAC was not the first electronic computer. And even if it were, it would merely be the product of an arms race based on more significant groundwork by George Boole, Charles Babbage, Claude Shannon, Nikola Tesla etc. I'm not saying it wasn't at all innovative - it was just somewhat inevitable on the scale of things and not a crucial stepping stone.
I'm not the one trying to attribute the existence of the computer to any one country. Like I said earlier, it's naive to attempt to credit the existence of the modern computer to exactly one person or country as you're so intent on doing. It's more of an iterative development than a one-off invention. If you have a look at the list of pioneers I posted earlier, you'll understand this.