Depends on what you call a “computer”. The first electronic calculating machine sold by the company now known as IBM was for the census, and it was prior to WWI.
Edit: we need to fight back on this idea that the military drives technological innovation. That’s only true because of the shitty values our society has.
I mean, I hear you, but to be fair, I think the military has been using that kind of a timing convention since before computing even really existed.
… We did more or less invent modern computers, initially, to compute artillery ranging tables.
I’m pretty sure that predates even the concept of … a string vs int data type.
Depends on what you call a “computer”. The first electronic calculating machine sold by the company now known as IBM was for the census, and it was prior to WWI.
Edit: we need to fight back on this idea that the military drives technological innovation. That’s only true because of the shitty values our society has.
The German one?