In 1901, sponge divers exploring a shipwreck off the small Greek island of Antikythera pulled up a corroded lump of bronze that would rewrite the history of technology. Encrusted and broken, the ...

Imagine pulling a corroded, shoebox-sized lump of bronze from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea — and slowly realizing it contains the most sophisticated machine ever built in the ancient world.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there's an ...

(via Hard Reset) What if the next big technology was actually a pretty old technology? The first computers ever built were analog, and a return to analog processing might allow us to rebuild computing ...