25 Jan
2011
25 Jan
'11
11:56 a.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
The one thing that strikes me after reading this
thread is that it
seems there is no precise point when computing history began.
I wrote:
Huh? I thought it began on January 13, 11 CE :-)
Rich Alderson wrote:
OK, I give up. What happened on the Ides of January in
the year 764
AUC?[1]
[1] QVOD OCCIDIT IDVM IANVARII ANNO DCCLXIV AVC?
It was 2000 years prior to the opening of the Computer History Museum's
"Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing" exhibit. Though I
suppose I am probably off by ten days due to the change from the Julian
calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Perhaps the correct date is January
23, 11 CE.
Eric