{"id":171314,"date":"2023-09-05T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-baffled-by-discovery-of-2000-year-old-computer"},"modified":"2023-09-05T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:23:08","slug":"scientists-baffled-by-discovery-of-2000-year-old-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-baffled-by-discovery-of-2000-year-old-computer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists baffled by discovery of \u20182000-year-old computer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-baffled-by-discovery-of-2000-year-old-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been left baffled by the discovery of the wreck of a 2,000-year-old \u201ccomputer\u201d that is amazingly complex.<\/p>\n<p>The Antikythera mechanism \u2013 an astronomical calendar \u2013 has been dubbed \u201c\u2018the first computer\u201d and has baffled scientists for generations after it was first discovered inside a Greek shipwreck in 1901.<\/p>\n<p>The device is a hand-powered time-keeping instrument that used a wing-up system to track the sun, moon and planets\u2019 celestial time. It also worked as a calendar, tracking the phases of the Moon and the timing of eclipses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been left baffled by the discovery of the wreck of a 2,000-year-old \u201ccomputer\u201d that is amazingly complex. The Antikythera mechanism \u2013 an astronomical calendar \u2013 has been dubbed \u201c\u2018the first computer\u201d and has baffled scientists for generations after it was first discovered inside a Greek shipwreck in 1901. The device is a hand-powered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}