• Deebster@lemmyrs.org
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    1 year ago

    I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

    1. He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
    2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can't deny that most of today's commercial computers trace back to the US)

    It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.