{"id":26758,"date":"2016-06-10T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-worlds-oldest-computer-may-have-been-used-to-predict-the-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:15:38","slug":"the-worlds-oldest-computer-may-have-been-used-to-predict-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-worlds-oldest-computer-may-have-been-used-to-predict-the-future","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Oldest Computer May Have Been Used to Predict the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-oldest-computer-may-have-been-used-to-predict-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discovered in an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901, the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism has been called the world\u2019s first computer. A decades-long investigation into the 2,000 year-old-device is shedding new light onto this mysterious device, including the revelation that it may have been used for more than just astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/5441889\/advanced-imaging-reveals-a-computer-1500-years-ahead-of-its-time\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antikythera Mechanism<\/a> is one of the most fascinating and important archaeological discoveries ever made, one that reveals the remarkable technological and engineering capacities of the ancient Greeks as well as their excellent grasp of astronomy. This clock-like assembly of bronze gears and displays was used to predict lunar and solar eclipses, along with the positions of the sun, moon, and planets. It wasn\u2019t programmable in the modern sense, but it\u2019s considered the world\u2019s first analog computer. Dating to around 60 BC, nothing quite like it would appear for another millennium.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-world-s-oldest-computer-may-have-been-used-to-predi-1781749625\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-world-s-oldest-computer-may-have-been...1781749625<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered in an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901, the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism has been called the world\u2019s first computer. A decades-long investigation into the 2,000 year-old-device is shedding new light onto this mysterious device, including the revelation that it may have been used for more than just astronomy. The Antikythera Mechanism is one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61551,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758\/revisions\/61551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}