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Anon thinks our timeline's writers could do better. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

He did not invent the modern computer but contributed significantly to the modern theory of computation. There is no single person who invented the computer, it was a collective effort over decades, if not centuries, ref. Leibniz, Lovelace, Bool, von Neumann, Weizenbaum, and many more.