Did Ancient People Have Computers?

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  • @fgmenth
    @fgmenth Місяць тому +317

    3:35 : this is proof that controller drift has been a problem for thousands of years

    • @triadwarfare
      @triadwarfare Місяць тому +4

      I guess they use intertial navigation and is known to drift in non-GPS guided cruise missiles and the Mi-24 Hind which uses a paper map and needs to be calibrated constantly as you move the helicopter.

    • @CyanRooper
      @CyanRooper Місяць тому +2

      @@triadwarfare "N-NANI?!?!? INERTIAL NAVIGATION???"

    • @Malay30
      @Malay30 Місяць тому +1

      @@CyanRooper my guess is it has something to do with photosynthesis

    • @gingaming_gg
      @gingaming_gg Місяць тому

      😂😂😂

    • @bilateralrope8643
      @bilateralrope8643 Місяць тому

      Also, the fix for both is to use magnets.

  • @virtualfilmer
    @virtualfilmer Місяць тому +86

    Why is Riley so good at reading the autocue naturally and in a relaxed way?? So good. :)

    • @orlagh277
      @orlagh277 Місяць тому +10

      Maxed charisma stat

    • @XDeserak
      @XDeserak Місяць тому +29

      There is no autocue.
      R.I.L.E.Y. (Realistic Internet Lifeform Entering UA-cam) is an advanced android system LTT's been tweaking for year. Runs directly off the server rack (that's why they needed so much memory).

    • @itsOwenHowarth
      @itsOwenHowarth Місяць тому +3

      Probably wrote it.

    • @Jason_Hubred
      @Jason_Hubred Місяць тому

      Lots of takes cut together.

    • @christopherjones9529
      @christopherjones9529 Місяць тому

      ​@@XDeserak When the server rack goes down, Riley "goes on vacation". Coincidence? I think not.

  • @benketteridge9150
    @benketteridge9150 Місяць тому +23

    Some points: the Ancient Greeks had heliocentric solar system models, no just Earth centred.
    And Colossus & Colossus II at Bletchley Park in the UK came before Eniac.

  • @jeffhidalgo6037
    @jeffhidalgo6037 Місяць тому +102

    My commodore 64 felt ancient even when it was new but I guess it's better than an abacus. Just finished the whole video so your happiness is ensured!

    • @NegativeROG
      @NegativeROG Місяць тому

      Load "ghostbusters",8,1
      Run
      That was life!

  • @rekire___
    @rekire___ Місяць тому +299

    Perhaps the first computer is the one we build along the way

    • @Mr.JimPickens
      @Mr.JimPickens Місяць тому +22

      Idk wtf this means but it made me chuckle

    • @lolmuffen8604
      @lolmuffen8604 Місяць тому +2

      Yes

    • @evicous9735
      @evicous9735 Місяць тому +6

      The most cop-out answer ever created by authors that can't think of good endings

    • @realgoose
      @realgoose Місяць тому +3

      42

    • @jedipadawan7023
      @jedipadawan7023 Місяць тому +2

      This is a bot. It comes n all manner of posts and always posts 'Perhaps [subject of video] is the one we built along the way" or "the friends we made along the way."
      Orrrrr... it's someone spoofing the bot in which case I salute you!

  • @JohnnyThousand605
    @JohnnyThousand605 Місяць тому +67

    Archimedes' clock had an owl so it would've been a... hoo-hoo clock

    • @Coonotafoo
      @Coonotafoo Місяць тому +2

      Ouch ... that pun was physically painful. FINE! Take my upvote and leave, damn it!

  • @murder.simulator
    @murder.simulator Місяць тому +7

    Like all ancient people they struggled to use even the most basic functions and kept pestering young kids to show them how it works. The sun dial, the abacus, Stonehenge

  • @garenson
    @garenson Місяць тому +15

    All nice and good, but the first Computer was the Z3 by Konrad Zuse built in 1941.

    • @MyHexe12
      @MyHexe12 Місяць тому +1

      Absolutely true, this is just not so much known outside of germany... And there might also be some people thinking it was "Nazi tech" which is absolutely not true if you look at Konrads live, but still something that might drive people to not talk about him.

  • @marc_frank
    @marc_frank Місяць тому +13

    Clickspring has been rebuilding the Antikythera mechanism using plans created from 3d x-rays and self made tools consistent with what was available in the time period the mechanism originates from

    • @aussiebloke609
      @aussiebloke609 Місяць тому +3

      1:09 I'm not sure if Chris finished his working replica, but this sure looks like his work.

  • @TyLarson
    @TyLarson Місяць тому +8

    Heron of Alexandria's amazing automated plays using ropes and knots was so cool. There is one with Dionysus who would pour wine into his panthers. He also invented automated doors, vending machines, and automata.

  • @TonkarzOfSolSystem
    @TonkarzOfSolSystem Місяць тому +4

    I think a clock isn’t a computer. A device that simply runs isn’t the same as a device that makes decisions i.e. a device with transistors (whether they be vacuum tubes or solid state or cogs).

  • @MikeCharnock
    @MikeCharnock Місяць тому +54

    ENIAC:1945, Collosus:1943/44, Z3:1941 - all programmable computers. ENIAC and Z3 were general purpose, Colossus was programmable but built with a specific purpose (codebreaking) in mind. Z3 was electromechanical, Colossus and ENIAC vacuum tube based.

    • @Barlie_
      @Barlie_ Місяць тому +2

      Colossus used switches to program it whereas eniac could store prewritten programs

    • @CyanRooper
      @CyanRooper Місяць тому +5

      But can it run DOOM?

    • @madmurdoch2000
      @madmurdoch2000 Місяць тому +4

      @@Barlie_ actualy they used a dual tape system for both program and data storage, main problem being that both tapes had to be kept in sync which was why the MK1 was replaced by the MK2 when a guy called Tommy Flowers was brought onto the program at the requemendation of alan turring and made alot of changes to the colossus based on work he had done on a previous project.
      and by the way ENIAC only ran 1 program that it was BUILT to run so was not really "programmable" as such

    • @daleykun
      @daleykun Місяць тому

      @@madmurdoch2000that tape drive is still the worlds fastest optical drive - don’t remember the exact numbers of the top of my head but I want to say the tape moved at something like 10 m/s

    • @csbruce
      @csbruce Місяць тому +1

      The Collosus and Z3 weren't Turing-Complete in a practical way and thus weren't general-purpose "Computers".

  • @StevePhillipsFractals
    @StevePhillipsFractals Місяць тому +52

    What abooot Babbage you Canadian cabbage! :)

    • @Efreeti
      @Efreeti Місяць тому +4

      Babbage's work was based on the programmable looms Riley mentioned :p

    • @hellomark1
      @hellomark1 Місяць тому +2

      While Babbage was centuries ahead of his time, he was never able to produce a fully working Difference Engine, due to costs. By 1842 he had spent £17,000 ($2 million USD today) and only produced a machine that covered 1/7th of his total plan, the cost of the rest was unpredictable so the government abandoned it.

  • @Kytetiger
    @Kytetiger Місяць тому +6

    I really like this kind of video.
    I was expecting a mention of Ada Lovelace, but i guess it will be in another video, about the 1st software

  • @contentwithlowquality4594
    @contentwithlowquality4594 24 дні тому +1

    The abacus was the first computer. Or a single lever. Computers are basically just loads of levers that are pulled in some sequence based on some rules

    • @contentwithlowquality4594
      @contentwithlowquality4594 24 дні тому +1

      There are older things like computers as well though, like circle things that use circle theorems

  • @sprinklednights
    @sprinklednights Місяць тому +2

    Paper is also a technology. I use it as my password manager.

  • @Wakobear.
    @Wakobear. Місяць тому +6

    What about the programmable Jacquard Loom, which used punchcards similar to the paper tape of the Colossus computer a century and a half later.

  • @gasracing5000
    @gasracing5000 Місяць тому +2

    @0:22
    I learned today that I am technically a computer. F yhea!!!
    I also learned I'm a tool. Less excited about that one.

    • @jesusvaldez8677
      @jesusvaldez8677 Місяць тому +2

      Yeah but can you run Crysis?

    • @gasracing5000
      @gasracing5000 Місяць тому

      @jesusvaldez8677
      Alsa, I'm but a sorry excuse for a potato of a computer... I can only render 1 frame per 3,600 seconds. 🤣

  • @kojp789
    @kojp789 Місяць тому +8

    You forgot about Zuse and his Z3 Computer. That was Even before the eniac

  • @anonymouschicken20
    @anonymouschicken20 Місяць тому +37

    Just the Antikythera calendar? Is that the *only* ancient Greek computer?
    We have a whole museum in Athens dedicated to Ancient Greek automats.

    • @Fizz-Pop
      @Fizz-Pop Місяць тому +3

      It's the most complicated isn't it?

    • @Americanbadashh
      @Americanbadashh Місяць тому

      @@Fizz-Pop idk, we have schematics for a greek designed robot that travels a programmed path

  • @ozelhassan8576
    @ozelhassan8576 28 днів тому

    I can’t believe there are clever people who have made working computers inside Minecraft, a game within a computer, that’s just mind boggling to me. I play Minecraft but I don’t understand red-stone which is at the heart of creating a computer inside a game inside a computer.

  • @johnjakson444
    @johnjakson444 26 днів тому

    The word computer used as a job description often used to describe the job of mathematics workers doing calculations on cranked calculators, it was used by the war departments and at Nasa, its in a few movies too.

  • @g.m.fernandes3579
    @g.m.fernandes3579 Місяць тому

    7:27 New steampunk setting has just dropped: STEAMPUNK ROME. An Empire that moves legionaries through trains to conquer everything in the known world.

  • @maddan.
    @maddan. Місяць тому +1

    It feels like @Clickspring deserves a mention here for the amazing work they're doing on the Antikythera mechanism, amongst others.

  • @markynio
    @markynio Місяць тому

    4:04 PIA: "I give you access to 91 countries"
    Google: "Whatever. I say you're in Romania"

  • @triadwarfare
    @triadwarfare Місяць тому +7

    3:20 I recall this is "Inertial navigation". Even with modern tech, there's tendency to drift without supporting technology like in cruise missiles, where the Tomahawks launched against Iraq weren't guided by GPS at first and they had to travel through mountains so they have the topographical data so it doesn't get lost in the featureless desert.
    Also, the Mi-24 Hind has a dynamic paper map which moves along with your location, but constantly drifts so you'll have to make adjustments using landmarks if it drifts too far.

  • @csbruce
    @csbruce Місяць тому +1

    A general-purpose "Computer" is a computational device that is Turing-complete in a practical way. The first computer constructed was the ENIAC and the first computer to be designed was the Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage in 1837.

  • @MarkBarrett
    @MarkBarrett Місяць тому +1

    It is true that we can build complex devices.
    Motivations are usually either protection or curiosity.

  • @JuhoJohansson-bz3jb
    @JuhoJohansson-bz3jb 24 дні тому

    I was quite surprised when I learned just how advanced the firecontroll system was on Iowa-class battleships. While the main battery computers are limited to "2 dimensional" targetting, I think even they do adjust for the curvature of Earth. And then the secondary battery computers are able to plot targets in full 3d, for use in anti-aircraft mode... Needles to say, even 5" gun battery is rather heavy to use against aircraft, and the 16 inch main guns simply too much, wich is why it makes sense to use only 2d targetting for main battery. But the way the battleships are constructed, allmost anything can be rerouted to use anything that works to keep fighting as long as even one thing does work.
    I mean I honestly thought they would be spinning some cranks and maybe having some sort of a cheatsheet where they could find how far their shots would land at a given elevation angle... But no, they actually even have sensors to detect the rolling of the ship. If I remember right the way it works (default mode) is once the trigger is pressed, it basically does nothing, untill the ship is level and then fires. So it was actually rather advanced setup long before the 80's.

  • @r1ngs400
    @r1ngs400 Місяць тому

    Entirely possible that much more complicated devices than the Antikythera mechanism existed since that belonged to a ship captain, just imagine what scholars had access to, and considering that stealing statues for their metals was commonplace in antiquity, it's not inconceivable that many such 'computers' were destroyed or looted. Also there is an ancient technology museum in the town of Katakolo Greece where an engineer has recreated many of the Greeks' inventions, a rudimentary proto steam engine, Archimedes alarm clock, giant ballista's, construction equipment, a mechanical pedestal like contraption that was thought to roll around in the agora's of old and play a little song and show with tiny puppets. They sell both a simple and complex recreation of the Antikythera too.

  • @gabrrom
    @gabrrom Місяць тому +7

    Vitruvian Man with Egg plant?

    • @gus473
      @gus473 Місяць тому +4

      They were out of cabbage ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

    • @Fizz-Pop
      @Fizz-Pop Місяць тому

      Too scared of demonetisation. Channels are censoring themselves because they are scared of the AI bot taking their money. Welcome to insanity.

  • @curtijam6302
    @curtijam6302 Місяць тому

    This is a really good Techquickie. Something else I would love to see would be revisits of videos like Motherboard VRMs As Quickly As Possible, etc.

  • @MasterJack2
    @MasterJack2 Місяць тому

    If you count the abacus then you have to count fingers as a calculating tool. And even before fingers, rocks.

  • @ShukenFlash
    @ShukenFlash Місяць тому +1

    Riley, I watch these videos for BOTH our happiness. Keep making awesome videos.

  • @Katjaneway
    @Katjaneway Місяць тому

    The Imitation Game is a great movie. It revolves around the first computer and the Enigma machine. What I wish it also had was a more in depth explainer on the invention of the Turing test for AI.

  • @Chronicles_of_Tomorrow
    @Chronicles_of_Tomorrow Місяць тому

    I think the first computer on Earth was the first multi-celled organism: since bioelectricity moving through ion channels in living cells is perfectly analogous to logic gates with transistors

  • @sntslilhlpr6601
    @sntslilhlpr6601 Місяць тому

    Well that was different. Would love more history lessons like this.

  • @XxThunderflamexX
    @XxThunderflamexX Місяць тому

    When was the first computer developed? When the first microbe evolved with the ability to sense and respond to its environment.

  • @AlexTrusk91
    @AlexTrusk91 Місяць тому

    Saw the mechanism once in real life when it was exibited near my hometown. Had no clue what to make of it, but was interested if it's really that old.
    Now I see it at least once a year in my youtube feed :D

  • @deesul4134
    @deesul4134 Місяць тому

    Why are there no videos on the impact of IGPU's used in conjunction with a DGPU for a second monitor? I use an IGPU for my second monitor but I would like to know what the actual effects are vs using the second monitor on the DGPU and disabling the IGPU. Also what would be the effects of having the IGPU turned on but still use the DGPU for the second monitor. What if i used three monitors, 2 on DGPU and 1 on IGPU and 2 on IGPU and 1 on DGPU. I would love to see data on the effects of an IGPU used in conjunction with a DGPU. I'm sure a lot of others are wondering the same thing.

  • @NegativeROG
    @NegativeROG Місяць тому

    Riley is someone I could watch all day long, he's such a natural. Please throw in a little Tim Cook here and there, that sh!t has me absolutely losing it!

  • @TheJirator
    @TheJirator Місяць тому

    More videos about history please! Very enjoyable!

  • @ShiroKage009
    @ShiroKage009 Місяць тому

    The play in the library of Alexandria was steam powered and was essentially an entire show with sounds.

  • @GugsGunny
    @GugsGunny Місяць тому

    I remember a con movie where they successfully and legally sold an "advanced computer" named "sucaba" that is an actual abacus.

  • @ChrisSmith-tc4df
    @ChrisSmith-tc4df Місяць тому

    YES!!! And we prayed to Lord Zilog for all of our bits to be refreshed on the regular.

  • @aussiebloke609
    @aussiebloke609 Місяць тому +1

    1:09 Is that the replica made by Chris, over at the Clickspring channel? It sure looks like his work.

    • @orlagh277
      @orlagh277 Місяць тому

      The link at the top says it's a picture on wikipedia, is his replica on wikipedia?

    • @shiftyhexahedron7891
      @shiftyhexahedron7891 Місяць тому

      @@orlagh277 No I don't think so, pretty sure he's not yet finished. Also been following his amazing channel.

  • @Sero3_
    @Sero3_ Місяць тому

    Maybe thousand years ago there are stuff like Wintergaten's marble machine... that counts right?

  • @SpaceTech54
    @SpaceTech54 Місяць тому

    Love your Delivery!!!

  • @creounity
    @creounity Місяць тому +1

    Great video, thanks!

  • @kingdomculture5743
    @kingdomculture5743 27 днів тому

    Good show Riley! Always enjoy your videos!

  • @SpiritmanProductions
    @SpiritmanProductions Місяць тому +1

    Pretty sure Colossus was first. 😐

  • @nathanielmoore87
    @nathanielmoore87 Місяць тому

    What about automotons such as the Maillardet's Automaton which could write and draw?

  • @danielpakiam2629
    @danielpakiam2629 Місяць тому

    Doesn't the Antikythera mechanism allow you to do time travel? It would calculate the time a portal would open 😂

  • @madmandog
    @madmandog Місяць тому +1

    Techquickie is the new History TV channel.

    • @jackkraken3888
      @jackkraken3888 Місяць тому

      Ayo let's not go there.its not that bad.

  • @Juice1984
    @Juice1984 Місяць тому +1

    Kudos for the Kudos line.

  • @christophermullins7163
    @christophermullins7163 Місяць тому +2

    Abacus is a tool for a human computer. It is not a computer on itself.

  • @hellmalm
    @hellmalm Місяць тому +13

    1:42 Correction the ancient Greek's knew very well the earth was round and that the sun was in the center of our solar system. But this knowledge did not really jive with the ideas of the Roman church so the knowledge was suppressed until the time of enlightenment during the renaissance.

    • @WalnutOW
      @WalnutOW Місяць тому +3

      No one believed in a flat Earth until the twentieth century. While a few philosophers proposed a heliocentric model, basically everyone in the world was a geocentrist until Copernicus.

    • @CyanRooper
      @CyanRooper Місяць тому +2

      "Bro, trust me. The Earth is round. Therefore we can reach the Spice Islands in Asia by crossing the Pacific Ocean. How hard can it be?" - Ferdinand Magellan, probably

  • @TonkarzOfSolSystem
    @TonkarzOfSolSystem Місяць тому

    So when are we going to see LTT overclocke the antikythera mechanism?

  • @gingaming_gg
    @gingaming_gg Місяць тому

    I know it’s a joke, but imagine a post-apocalyptic world and explorers are navigating the globe looking for habitable climates, and all of us printed out the transcript of this video in our respective languages… imagine trying to figure out how the same exact information was found in all corners of the globe and realizing that somewhere along the timeline an advanced civilization existed where information could be passed across the planet and translated into other languages… 🤯

  • @vikkran401
    @vikkran401 Місяць тому

    Can't wait for someone to make "Can you install Linux on a 2000 year old machine?"

  • @itsdeonlol
    @itsdeonlol Місяць тому +2

    So can the first computer ever run Crysis?

  • @Mazorzarch
    @Mazorzarch Місяць тому

    At over 530 years old, the Vitruvian Man must be censored?
    Oh UA-cam, and their fickle yet unknowable reasons for demonitization strike again.
    Allegedly, I assume.

  • @Jaszi007
    @Jaszi007 Місяць тому

    3:04 Why did this statement feel so insulting

  • @keyem4504
    @keyem4504 Місяць тому

    My first computer was a C64 in1984. That at least is a historical fact.

  • @irwainnornossa4605
    @irwainnornossa4605 Місяць тому

    Metric! You're talking about antient times, but those are gone now, we use SI units!

  • @FallingFlying.
    @FallingFlying. Місяць тому

    Another quality RTT Production paving the way for inferior LTT productions to follow along from.

  • @BOBimusRex
    @BOBimusRex Місяць тому

    Those aren't computers. Those are tools, maps, and charts. A computer does the work FOR YOU. By YOUR definition a freaking ruler is a computer.

    • @Tattletale-Delta
      @Tattletale-Delta Місяць тому

      No, those are analog computers. Modern pc's are digital computers.

  • @Xamufam
    @Xamufam Місяць тому

    The lack of a patent system back then destroyed the incentive to build it

  • @sklynexd
    @sklynexd 29 днів тому

    Prague mentioned!!

  • @annoyingneighbor4928
    @annoyingneighbor4928 Місяць тому

    When that silicon industry gets messed up.

  • @zimbu_
    @zimbu_ Місяць тому

    What if the ancient aliens gave the Gaels gaming computers, and that's why they kinda just stayed home for most of history?

  • @sturdybutter
    @sturdybutter Місяць тому +2

    Fascinating video! Would love to see more deep dives into historical technologies.

  • @kaz49
    @kaz49 Місяць тому +1

    A couple decades from now we'll discover that the Ancient Greeks actually discovered binary and invented digital computers on their own

  • @Razear
    @Razear Місяць тому

    Before the calculator was invented, the standard "computer" of the time was called an abacus.

  • @JG-ti7id
    @JG-ti7id Місяць тому

    glad your happy now! i watched the entire video! tytyty

  • @AmpiroMax
    @AmpiroMax Місяць тому

    TechNews -> GameNews -> TechHistory, what next?

  • @ScottGrammer
    @ScottGrammer Місяць тому +7

    Did Ancient People Have Computers? Yes. Macintoshes. But we in the 21st century do not use such antiquated and unrepairable technology.

  • @SayedTufailShah-zq4bx
    @SayedTufailShah-zq4bx Місяць тому

    hope your happy riley, i watched till the end.😊

  • @vuhdoo7486
    @vuhdoo7486 Місяць тому +12

    ENIAC (1943) wasn't the first general computer. Those would be the Turing machine (1936), Zuse Z1 (1937) -> Zuse Z3 (1938) and Colossus (1943).
    Please research better, just because you are from the american continent, you can't ignore what others did beforehand.

    • @Barlie_
      @Barlie_ Місяць тому +1

      Eniac was the first electronic general computer all the others you listed were electromechanical

    • @torsten_dev
      @torsten_dev Місяць тому +2

      ​@@Barlie_
      The turing machine was a mathematical model of computation, not a device.

    • @CyanRooper
      @CyanRooper Місяць тому

      But can they run DOOM?

    • @vuhdoo7486
      @vuhdoo7486 Місяць тому +1

      @@CyanRooper since they are all Turing-complete (some with tricks), they can run DOOM. It's the same with the game of life and minecraft, both can run doom theoretical since they meet the requirements for Turing completeness.
      Also I forgot a few, like Mark I, Atanasoff-Berry-Computer and Zuse Z4.
      The second world war helped a lot, even though all pieces were known 10-15 years prior.

    • @csbruce
      @csbruce Місяць тому

      @@vuhdoo7486: Z1 isn't Turing-Complete at all. Z3 is only Turing-Complete "by speculatively computing all possible outcomes of a calculation", which is disqualifying because it's utterly impractical. The Z3 lacked conditional branching. Colossus isn't Turing-Complete either, which makes all of these other "computers" into "glorified calculators".

  • @HuntShowdownLab
    @HuntShowdownLab Місяць тому

    Is this a history class or techquickie? i'm confused, but I love it!

    • @Americanbadashh
      @Americanbadashh Місяць тому

      They could only talk about 90/00's tech for so long before running out of material lol

  • @Americanbadashh
    @Americanbadashh Місяць тому

    1:50 The term for the joke on screen here, is "retrograde".

  • @apsims12
    @apsims12 Місяць тому

    I'd like to point people to @Clickspring to learn and watch how the Antikythera was made, including the making and use of the potential tools they had at the time.

  • @tsimmersjr
    @tsimmersjr Місяць тому

    Imagine producing a video for a channel with 4+ million subs and not even bothering to get the pronunciation of the main topic correct... 🤣
    "An-tee-kith-er-a"

  • @Americanbadashh
    @Americanbadashh Місяць тому

    7:12 They likely wouldn't see much use for it as they had slaves for such things.

  • @saulgoodman2018
    @saulgoodman2018 Місяць тому

    Computer is something that have electronics in it.

  • @Mykasan
    @Mykasan Місяць тому

    i have a planisfeer at home. pretty helpful when looking at the sky

  • @asmircar1
    @asmircar1 Місяць тому

    How do you find north in wild when its dark ?

  • @thedspenguin
    @thedspenguin Місяць тому

    ancient people have computers NOW! it's true, I see them on Facebook!

  • @reddcube
    @reddcube Місяць тому

    I think it's interesting that we have already reached peak "computer"
    The word 'computer' is used less and less. It has had a steady decline since 1985.
    Other terms like Laptop, PC, Mac, or iPhone have overtaken Computer in prominence.

  • @Jason_Hubred
    @Jason_Hubred Місяць тому

    Unless an abacus is a computer, too. It's not because it's manually used, so no. The mechanism is also manually used, so it's not a computer.

  • @opmanzano
    @opmanzano Місяць тому +4

    It's amazing how little tech went forward during middle ages compared to what was developed in ancient Greece and Rome. Not only tech but also science, philosophy, etc. Humanity was halted by fear, religion and the most stupid wars.

    • @ibrahimnauman5600
      @ibrahimnauman5600 Місяць тому

      U do realise modern science is based upon the works of muslims who were infact encouraged by islam to make and discover

    • @ibrahimnauman5600
      @ibrahimnauman5600 Місяць тому +2

      Before Arabia was a waste land but when Islam came ; encouraged by the teachings of islam muslims started to discover and make , and hence laid the foundations on which Modern science is based upon

    • @ibrahimnauman5600
      @ibrahimnauman5600 Місяць тому

      I dont think its fair to call out all religions just bcz of cristianity

  • @anikkas____world
    @anikkas____world Місяць тому

    What’s that thing moving in front of you/your screen at 4:57 @techquickie?

  • @magnemoe1
    @magnemoe1 Місяць тому

    Going into the 20th century you got fire control computers. Doing long range gunfights between battleships is hard as both are moving.
    So they made analog computers for this, into WW 2 they got better even including radar data not only for target but the shell impacts.
    Then they reactivated the Iowa battleships in the 80's these computers was just as accurate as the digital ones who replaced them.
    Yes the digital ones was much much cheaper, its not an refrigerator sized box of Swiss clockwork cogs but an six pack sized device you could add to any gun.
    But not more accurate.
    Today its not true as you have more data,

  • @t3tsuyaguy1
    @t3tsuyaguy1 Місяць тому

    I mean, technically as soon as there was someone doing computations, there was a computer, since that is the origin of the term. The first computers were people. The term 'electrical computer' eventually wore down to just 'computer' and everyone forgot that it was a term originally ascribed specifically to humans. It's kind of like the word alien, which also specifically referred to humans. 'Space aliens' being coined to refer to foreign visitors from space. This term eventually wore down to alien, and now people get offended at the term 'illegal alien', because they are ascribing the connotation of non-human to the word, even though it was coined specifically to refer to human visitors from another country.

    • @luisfable
      @luisfable Місяць тому

      Probably animals do too, or even some cells or chemical, physical processes.

    • @t3tsuyaguy1
      @t3tsuyaguy1 Місяць тому

      @@luisfable ?

  • @troyclayton
    @troyclayton Місяць тому

    You must be Antikythera newbs. It was a Roman ship returning home, laden with Greek plunder. You didn't even come close to doing the mechanism justice. The mathematics required to construct that thing showed a deep understanding of the observable movements of the heavenly bodies, the math behind them, and a profound skill at manufacturing. Plus, "Ancient" tends to mean before 500-600 CE. So, the Antikythera mechanism is the only ancient thing you've talked about. From there you should have gone straight to the punch card reading Texas Instruments calculators of the late 70's, with the red led display...

  • @ChibiSteak
    @ChibiSteak Місяць тому

    1:52 fin.

  • @FrotLopOfficial
    @FrotLopOfficial Місяць тому

    Calculators existed literal centuries ago yet my fucking printer wont print ink

  • @looppii4883
    @looppii4883 Місяць тому

    The real answer is that computers as we know it as been around for BILLIONS of years, but they wont teach that to us.

  • @georgeluvspotato8002
    @georgeluvspotato8002 Місяць тому +1

    5:41 thats is not the the united states capitol💀💀💀

  • @SingleRacerSVR
    @SingleRacerSVR Місяць тому

    Are you calling Me ANCIENT!!!, hahahaha (well, they did call me DOS-Boy ; )