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[โ€“] Honytawk 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Depends entirely on the definition of computer.

There are so many "inventors of the first computers" it is ridiculous. Almost like creating a complex machine like a computer takes a whole many inventions and people who worked on it over a time span of multiple generations.

[โ€“] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Turing invented the first "reprogrammable computer"