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[โ€“] Ajen@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It wasn't named by IT people, though. It was named by academics. And it's not about using computers, it's about computing. Computer science is older than digital electronics.

[โ€“] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Mhm, and those academics were no IT people and had nothing to do with computers?

Let's fact-check that.

Computer Sciences as an academic course was first created by IBM at the Columbia University in 1946. Because IBM had made their first commercial computer two years prior and wanted to have people who could operate it and who could continue to develop it.