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If you're talking about computers, computers were available in 1900, just that it was actually women (mostly) in an office doing the maths by hand.
Similar to the "AI" meme comment - "Actually Indians"
:) that's why I referred to available technology, not the word. "Computers" were available, both as people and as semi-algorithmic adding machines, but the speed, capabilities and operating principles were different to a degree that the only similarities are a name and an abstract mathematical model.
Although picturing the brigades of women with adding machines occasionally sending a telegram to create a 1900s Internet is amusing.