The digital age can be traced to a machine built circa 1951 in Princeton, N.J. That machine was given the bureaucratic-sounding name the Mathematical and Numerical Integrator and Computer, and was known by the acronym Maniac, meaning something wild and uncontrollable — which it proved to be. But the crucial double entendre was contained in the computer’s memory. For the first time, numbers could mean numbers or instructions. Data could be a noun or a verb.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:46:56 +0000
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