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i was hoping someone spotted :thumbsup:

i was going to leave it, but my point is when did this become an accepted phrase? it seems a recent term that pops up in BBC and other non-technical articles. in IT eduction through the 90's i dont ever recall it. Computers as we know them start in 1940's, before that the term meant clerks...

no thats effing counting. look, yes there's been some form of computing, but it would make more sence to delinate as "Computing" from 1940's on and "proto-computing" for everything before. the paradigm completely changes precisely because of the capabilities post Turing machine are so...

can we please stop using the daft term "modern computing" unless one can explain what computing was before this modern age? and lets not understate things, he is the father of computing, along with Von Neumann.