Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that the first recorded use of the term "computer" referred to a person, not a ...

TIL that the first recorded use of the term "computer" referred to a person, not a machine. In the 17th century, "computers" were people who performed calculations by hand.

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/computers-were-originally-humans/
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