World's First Computer, rebooted after 2,000 years

[pegkerr]

Antikythera, a 2,000 year old Greek computer comes back to life.

Thanks to elisem for the link.

Comments

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

It's glorious. But at the same time, I want to headline the article:

"Ancient Greek PDA demonstrates that feature bloat is no new thing"

("Dude! We'll put the Olympics on there *too*! Eat my dust, Ergasias and yer frippin' iotaPhone!")

[airemay.livejournal.com]

That is so cool!

[volkhvoi.livejournal.com]

Awesomely cool.

I'd love to know why something that was (I assume) rare and valuable at the time doing on a ship. Where was it going? Where did it come from? And why did it have to be moved?