Computing & tech

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• A 1952 Computer Wrote Love Letters 1952–53 · University of Manchester, England
• A Cosmic Ray May Have Voted in Belgium and Moved Mario 2003 · Schaerbeek, Brussels / 2013 · a Super Mario 64 speedrun
• A Defence Engineer Invented Home Gaming at a Bus Stop 1966–1972 · Sanders Associates, Nashua, New Hampshire
• A Fourth-Grade Teacher Wrote the First Story Game 1964 · Westchester County, New York (IBM 7090)
• A Mobile Game That Mapped How We Lose Our Way 2016 · UCL, London and players in every country
• A Pigeon Beat South Africa's Broadband September 2009 · Howick to Durban, South Africa
• A Thousand Rockets Hidden in a Well 1780–1799 · Mysore; found 2018 · Nagara Fort, Shivamogga, Karnataka
• A Train Ticket Punch Counted America 1890 · US Census, Washington, D.C.
• Ada Lovelace's Notes Were Longer Than the Paper Oct 1842 – Aug 1843 · London
• Amsterdam Built Digital Cash Before Bitcoin 1982–1998 · CWI and DigiCash, Amsterdam
• Apollo 11's Computer Cried 1202. They Landed Anyway 20 Jul 1969 · Lunar descent, Sea of Tranquillity
• Argentina's First Computer Sang 'Clementine' 24 Nov 1960 – 1971 · University of Buenos Aires