Ancient Computing

Ukulele Serialbus is now the UK’s first emeritus professor of Ancient Computing at the prestigious Bridgnorth Institute of Technology. She is, of course, mostly known to the general public for her recent TV series on the Neolithic use of the spacebar and early Roman versions of the Windows operating system. This did so much to turn most of Europe into a single empire, all using more or less the same operating system.

It was Julius Caesar’s defeat of the Gaul tribes and his forcing them to con...