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this is not actually correct, he didn’t invent the computer, he invented the turings machine
I also looked this up and many sources are giving credit to a guy named Charles Babbage. But perhaps this meme creator is defining computer differently.
Babbage is the creator of the first mechanical Computer (his Difference Engine).
Turing is the father of Computer Science, in that he created a mathematical model for computation (Turing Machines).
Isn’t the abacus a mechanical computer?
even then the degree to which charles babbage was responsible for his machines is somewhat contested.
even then charles babbage was inventing in an environment that was already highly geared to explore logic as a discipline with many people actively pursuing the same or similar objects of fascination. there are experiments in computation and entire computers far preceding babbage, going so far back as the earliest annals of recorded history.
a lot of people also don’t understand that babbage’s initial inventions weren’t even autonomous or mechanical/electrical. they weren’t computers in the colloquial, modern sense. at first they were basically just arrays of literal physical drawers, that the user had to physically move objects between, that could represent something akin to modern memory. this was rudimentary even at the time - the classical greeks famously were astute mechanist and the best of the wondermakers could make much more than just cranes: think autonomous robots, analog computational orreries, literal fucking lasers powered by the sun. by babbage’s time europeans were intimately familiar with engineering and computational principles far beyond what the average contemporary person realizes. the actual innovation is the conceptual handling of it. without that, babbage just made a fancy shelf.
either way babbage isn’t even remembered very fondly by the field. lovelace was far more influential and had far more intuition and genius to her work.
Computing: invented by an incredible clever gay guy to fight nazis.
Honour his legacy.
A German guy called Konrad Zuse also invented computers around the same time. I honestly never wondered about his relation to the Nazis. I’ve just looked it up and he never was a party member, yet he worked for the military. Yikes.
Alan Turing, the father of modern computers, has an incredibly depressing ending.
Chemically castrated due to being an illegal homosexual, he died in dishonor over bullshit homophobia and new drugs that the 1950s possessed.
Being gay didn’t contribute to his death. How the state treated him when they found out did. Anytime his name comes up I think about how many horrible people there are in the world who just can’t let others be what they are . Fanatics are somewhat evil by nature.
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Alan Turing, the inventor of the first computer*, was castrated by the British Government for being gay.
FTFY
*Not exactly, but not to diminish his immense contributions to computer science
Thank you. That part got my pedantic ass in a tizzy. Glad someone else mentioned it.
I don’t think he’s necessarily the inventor of the computer. There are a few possible candidates, including Ada Lovelace or Charles Babbage, who were earlier.
Babbage invented the computer, Ada invented the programming language that would be used to program it. She even wrote the first ever bug in it.
https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html
“In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering here is v4 / v5. This may well have been a typesetting error and not an error in the program that Lovelace devised. All the same, this must be the oldest bug in computing. I marveled that, for ten minutes or so, unknowingly, I had wrestled with this first ever bug.”
That wasn’t the first bug; it couldn’t have been because the term hadn’t been coined yet. It was just the first programming mistake.
The first computer bug was found by Grace Hopper, and was caused by an actual insect that had gotten into the machine.
This is a myth; the term “bug” for mistake predates the famous moth incident.
The pun doesn’t even make sense unless the term was already in common use when Hopper wrote it. If you don’t already know what a computer bug is, the note sounds deranged.
Blaise Pascal was the real OG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascaline
He ended WW2 at least half a year earlier than it would have.
He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, maybe millions.
Then he returned home to England as a war hero, but was instead exiled and chemically castrated for being a homosexual.
Not much later he committed suicide.
It was Alan that first opened my eyes as a child to the senseless violence committed against LGBTQIA+
Every June 23rd I make sure to remember him and all he has done for humanity.
Rip Alan Turing, the father of computer science, i love you.
I named* my first self-built computer after him! Does this make that machine gay? They put chemicals in the bytes that turn the friggin’ hardware gay!
*call me a weirdo but I do often name stuff like household appliances and my trees.
I do think that this makes you weird (affectionate), and I hope you never change, because your weirdness is wonderful.
My friend’s mom occasionally gives full names, like forename+surname and uses them as such
I don’t go so far. Only my pets get a surname, and it’s the family’s surname. (Some of the household appliances have kind of melodramatic names though, specially if they break often. Like Solineuza, the washing machine.)
The only one who can decide your computer is gay is the computer itself.
Technically true, but as an admin with root priviledges, I can access system private keys and directly manage it’s identity, such that it’s choice is usually what I told it to want.
Tangent, boy I cannot wait for neurolink to let Grok in my brain. I’m sure it will lead to lots of new ways of thinking for me. 🙃😶😶🙄
The gayest computer that ever existed was that cunty little bastard on Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Konrad Zuse invented the first proper computer.
Alan Turing later invented computing.
This distinction is why computer science exists.
Turing theories and papers were pre-war. It’s those that people remember him for.
The movie was excellent
Maybe it’s just me, but he kind of looks a bit like a young Max Verstappen
When you use the computer, first think you do is put your hands on the keyboard, specifically, you touch the D. This extracts all the heterosexuality from your body. If you’re lucky, this effect is only temporary.
If you’re lucky, this effect is only temporary.
