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Deebster@lemmyrs.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

  1. He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
  2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can't deny that most of today's commercial computers trace back to the US)

It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.

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