@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 2 months agoIs there a series showing how we got rocks to think?message-square26fedilinkarrow-up153file-text
arrow-up153message-squareIs there a series showing how we got rocks to think?@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 2 months agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepartial_accumenlinkfedilink5•2 months agoBefore we used rocks to think we did it with vacuum, heat, and glass. At the time we did have some very very basic thinking rocks with primitive semiconductor diodes made from lead and sulfur.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-22 months agoAlso how debugging got its name, because bugs would get into the vacuum tubes Edit: I did some digging and found what’s claimed to be the actual “de-bugging”. Turns out it wasn’t as widespread as my memory made it out to be.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoWouldn’t really be vacuum if they could get in though
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoVery true. I got more curious and found this discussion trying to trace “debug.”
Before we used rocks to think we did it with vacuum, heat, and glass. At the time we did have some very very basic thinking rocks with primitive semiconductor diodes made from lead and sulfur.
Also how debugging got its name, because bugs would get into the vacuum tubes
Edit: I did some digging and found what’s claimed to be the actual “de-bugging”. Turns out it wasn’t as widespread as my memory made it out to be.
Wouldn’t really be vacuum if they could get in though
Very true. I got more curious and found this discussion trying to trace “debug.”