Happy Babbage's Birthday
2002-12-26 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearCharles Babbage, inventor of the digital computer (and arguably of the failed computer company, since he kept changing the design of his Analytical Engine until the project finally ran out of funding) was born 310 years ago today.
It would be most appropriate to burn a dot-com stock certificate in his memory this evening.
It would be most appropriate to burn a dot-com stock certificate in his memory this evening.