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There's a sign on the Penn campus honoring ENIAC (1946), calling it the world's first digital computer. I've also heard of Babbage's proposed analytical engine and its programmer Ada Lovelace. But the Antikythera Mechanism predates them by 2,000 years.

Mystery of ancient ‘computer’ found among the remains of 2,200-year-old shipwreck

(The original Haaretz article is behind a paywall.)

jarnon wrote:There's a sign on the Penn campus honoring ENIAC (1946), calling it the world's first digital computer. I've also heard of Babbage's proposed analytical engine and its programmer Ada Lovelace. But the Antikythera Mechanism predates them by 2,000 years.

Mystery of ancient ‘computer’ found among the remains of 2,200-year-old shipwreck

(The original Haaretz article is behind a paywall.)

The Antikythera Mechanism was not a digital computer.