Day 2: A Very Old Computer
Spooky Baron's What's New · Friday 30 October 2026
Friday’s video was a 35-second short, “The 2,000-Year-Old Computer”, in the same punchy style as the day before. It follows the story of an ancient geared device, from the moment it was found to a Greek inventor turning a handle. It went up in the morning.
Frames from “The 2,000-Year-Old Computer”: the opening line, the find in 1901, and a hand-cranked gadget.
The afternoon turned to cartoons. Stick-figure characters got a sheet of poses, including a scruffy one and a bald one with a cricket bat, which is where Eddie and Richie begin. A short coded test put the bat swing on screen. Silly, quick, and a sign of the game to come.