• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Mhm, and those academics were no IT people and had nothing to do with computers?

    Let’s fact-check that.

    Computer Sciences as an academic course was first created by IBM at the Columbia University in 1946. Because IBM had made their first commercial computer two years prior and wanted to have people who could operate it and who could continue to develop it.