Bernie Sanders Is Older Than the Digital Computer
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democrat from Vermont, was born on September 8, 1941, predating not just the hulking IBM computers of the 1950s that would become popularized in TV and movies, like the 1957 film Desk Set. Sanders predates the earliest digital computers ever made.
Work began on the first automatic electronic digital computer in 1937, but it wasn’t until 1942 that the Atanasoff–Berry computer made history. While the Atanasoff-Berry wasn’t programmable, the Colossus would become the first programmable computer in December of 1943. The ENIAC, the first general purpose computer, would make its debut just a couple of years later in 1945. Sanders is older than all three, of course.
