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Name something the Germans invented without googling (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the computer, but the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer (which would be a stage in computer hardware.)

It would be Babbage's machine as mechanical computers precede digital ones and only if we only allow nonspecific turing complete machines.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

It was the first programmable, fully automatic, digital, turing-complete computer (although they only found out the last part after Zuse died).
So I'd argue, it was the first computer in the sense we understand and use the word today.