BBC documentary history of computers part 1.

[breaneainn]

when I was a child in the open tundras, we used to rub mammoth bones together to hear the words of the gods. Now I have useless android apps that cost $14

[sharpezor]

0:28 but can it run crysis ?

[candietwist]

I was bored and searched 'BBC Documentaries' and got here. Funny what procrastination can make you do

[dickydom9]

@candietwist me too

[BonsaiEternity]

The kind of development like in this video, is now occuring with the Quantum computer. :) I hope we don't have to wait as long, but have one in our homes in about 25 years.

[BennyB5555]

@helipro555 haha lol

[Zher0kool]

Cool, thanks.

[BennyB5555]

As I am watching this on my iPhone!? What a trip! So even if you were accused of being gay in Britain you would be thought a monster? Horrible.

[renfratube]

Very nice video and very well made. I will use it in in my lessons on informatics!

[ludocrat]

@gigobait

"Fuck the British" is it? Then you mean "fuck Alan Turing" as well, who was British. That's how stupid your ignorant comment is.

Of course, you won't understand that so I'm wasting my breath.

[helipro555]

@ludocrat As Michael jackson in south park said: Thats ignorant noo noo your ignorant! lol

[maureenOWW]

@gigobait You're from Russia, correct? Guess what the Russians did to homosexuals? Hint: it involved a) jail b) siberia c) death. So 'fuck the Russians', correct?

[kurisensei]

@gigobait lol 'fuck the British', yes it was very sad... but things have changed. Where are you from? No doubt somewhere where homosexuality has flourished freely for centuries!

[pseudonymuser]

Now imagine ... living in those time imagining those machines evolving to our gizmos of today what an mental exercise

[dudewhyfi]

cracking the codes, yes?

[TheTruePsycho]

prosecution for homosexuality? wow.

[gangman5]

@TheTruePsycho

Yeah, things were VERY different in those days when it came it sexuality....

Shame such a genius was prosecuted just for being gay.

[thebork]

Poles: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski ."..first broke Germany's Enigma ciphers. Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Polish Cipher Bureau gave Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to French and British military intelligence.[3][4] Thanks to this,[5] during the war, allied codebreakers were able to decrypt a vast number of messages that had been enciphered using the Enigma." info from en.wikipedia

[Cakerolled]

Turing was a silly nonce.

[VanillaNihilist]

@Cakerolled What!!

[bhipp75]

Very excellent. Thanks.