The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.

[www.livescience.com]

See also:
"Giant brains; or Machines that think" [www.gutenberg.org] by Edmund Callis Berkeley [en.wikipedia.org].

It's intriguing that Ada Lovelace - [en.wikipedia.org] - "the first computer programmer", was connected by indirect family ties with Mary Shelley [en.wikipedia.org], authoress of "Frankenstein" [en.wikipedia.org], held by some to be the "first true science-fiction story" ...

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