Accidental Invention of the Modern Computer 💻

A chance meeting between John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine led to the modern computer. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription

Highly recommend the book The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Future-Visionary-Life-Neumann/dp/1324003995/

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Sources:
ENIAC on display at the University of Pennsylvania: Copyright 2005 Paul W Shaffer, University of Pennsylvania
ENIAC on display at Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, US y Judson McCranie, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76493820
Steve Jobs holding iPhone in 2010: Matthew Yohe at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Minneapolis Federal Courthouse: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons