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New Zealand. We built the first mechanical computer, the Totalizer. (Babbage designed one first, but never completed a working model.) We used it to calculate odds for horse races. It was gravity-powered and used the weight of a concrete block on a rope to turn gears.
Linux. Finland.
Wouldn’t have been created without the free universal education that provided Torvalds the free access to university’s licenses and hardware.
Big one. Basically the whole modern world depends on Linux and I don’t even think that’s too much of an exaggeration
Linux itself probably doesn’t get enough credit. People still think it’s an obscure nerd OS.
