Comment by Sam Penrose on A brief history of computers · 2023-07-22T14:30:59.413Z · LW · GW

Nice piece, I learned from it. Thank you! Here's my attempt from 2016, which starts later and focuses on the machines that computers power: http://whatarecomputersfor.net . It's interesting where we hit on the same observations (machines for math) and analogies (postal address <-> IP address).