The Greek Antikythera Mechanism
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Uploaded by TitusLabienus on Jan 6, 2010
The Antikythera mechanism, is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 190001 from the Antikythera wreck, but its complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. It is now thought to have been built about 150100 BC. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks appeared in Europe.
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Such a hoax.
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@TheJacolyte haha. I'm just joking. yeeehaw! It's a computer. I know that.
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@Djdjin Hey! Guess what? Fuck you!
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Fvtq
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@TheJacolyte You are a fucking moron. Where is your research to back this up? Or right, you don't have any. Faggot.
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@HellaBeed yes they were. RIP Greeks.
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I pad of the time !
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Wow.
And I find Hermione Cockburn extremely cute.
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looks better than the one i bought of ebay :)
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HellaBeed 1 year ago 15
@Mayhem108 It is indeed a computer. As others have said, it's simply analog rather than digital. Early digital computers existed that used water filled tubes to represent on/off switches, and were used to calculate things and perform mathematical functions. That's all a computer is really, is a device that performs calculations.
It is indeed a computer, one that is very foreign from what you're normally familiar with.
TheJacolyte 1 year ago 15