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Name something the Germans invented without googling (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

It was the first programmable, fully automatic, digital, turing-complete computer (although they only found out the last part after Zuse died).
So I'd argue, it was the first computer in the sense we understand and use the word today.