{"id":244253,"date":"2026-09-19T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/600-years-before-code-existed-the-inca-built-the-worlds-first-computer-using-nothing-but-knots"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:03:37","slug":"600-years-before-code-existed-the-inca-built-the-worlds-first-computer-using-nothing-but-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/600-years-before-code-existed-the-inca-built-the-worlds-first-computer-using-nothing-but-knots","title":{"rendered":"600 Years Before Code Existed, the Inca Built the World\u2019s First Computer Using Nothing but \u2018Knots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/600-years-before-code-existed-the-inca-built-the-worlds-first-computer-using-nothing-but-knots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knots, cords, and color, that\u2019s all it took. A new study suggests the Inca built something eerily close to a computer, centuries before the first one existed. Here\u2019s what researchers found when they actually tried to run it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knots, cords, and color, that\u2019s all it took. A new study suggests the Inca built something eerily close to a computer, centuries before the first one existed. Here\u2019s what researchers found when they actually tried to run it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244253","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}