{"id":143418,"date":"2026-01-02T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143418"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:00:16","slug":"2000-year-old-machine-found-in-western-china-tomb-could-be-a-binary-computer-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143418","title":{"rendered":"2,000-year-old machine found in western China tomb could be a binary computer: authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.<br \/>\nBy this fundamental definition, China\u2019s ancient ti hua ji, or figured loom \u2013 dating back more than two millennia to the Western Han dynasty \u2013 may well be recognised as the world\u2019s earliest computer, according to the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).<br \/>\nUnearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated around 150BC in Chengdu, this&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3338360\/2000-year-old-machine-found-western-china-tomb-could-be-binary-computer-authorities?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. By this fundamental definition,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}