Computing Britain

Computing Britain

Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technologies we rely on today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bq6j1

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Connected Thinking

The story of packet switching, how computers learned to talk to each other.

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LEO the Electronic Office

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Electronic Brains

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