The word "computer" first appeared in print in 1613, in a poem by Richard Brathwaith
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-06
Grady Booch shares a piece of tech-history trivia: the earliest published occurrence of the word "computer" appears in Richard Brathwaith's 1613 work The Yong Mans Gleanings, describing the finest arithmetician alive who "reduceth thy dayes into a short number" — over three centuries before computing machines existed.
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