What if the next big technology was actually a pretty old technology? The first computers ever built were analog, and a ...

Later named the Antikythera mechanism after the island off which it was found, this remarkable bronze construction over 2,000 years old turned out to be the world’s first analog computer ...

In 1901 a device called the Antikythera Mechanism was found in a shipwreck, and after extensive study, it was determined that it was an analog computer that was at least 2000 years old. This is a ...

A New Study Shakes Up Our Understanding of the World’s First Analog Computer. ... Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, ...

We might not think of analog computers as having existed in the 1500s, but in fact the astrolabe first appeared around 220 BC. However, as you might expect only a few very old ones still exist. Ear… ...

The 1945 creation of the first programmable computer, ENIAC, is a good guess. Or maybe we stretch it back to Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s work on the analog Analytical Engine in the 1830s.