apparantly it is like the discovery of any subject but actually it came in view when Babbage build a sort of machine(looking like car engine :)) in 1805.
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You do not discover an invention, you invent it.
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After putting my computer into a deep hypnotic state I found the answer was 42.
they used computer recording tapes
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Charles Babbage was the first to create the idea of a mechanical computer ( he invented it, he didn't discover it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
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bill gates discovered the use of the computer, then he made a software called Microsoft. bill discovered Microsoft and was a computer wiz.
The electronic numerical integrator and computer, or ENIAC, was designed to discover, monitor, and predict flight paths of weapons.
When you "discover" something, that means that it already existed. When you "invent" something, that means it did not exist until then. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak invented Apple
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