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Which British tech innovation are you most proud of historically?
From wartime codebreaking to the device in your pocket, Britain has shaped the digital age in profound ways. Rank these home-grown breakthroughs by which you find most impressive.
Put the items in your preferred order.
A
The World Wide Web
Invented at CERN by a British computer scientist, the Web transformed how humanity shares information. Berners-Lee famously gave it away for free.
B
The Colossus Computer
The world's first programmable electronic digital computer, built to crack Nazi Lorenz ciphers. It helped shorten the Second World War by an estimated two years.
C
The ARM Processor
Designed in Cambridge, ARM chips now power virtually every smartphone on the planet. A quiet British triumph hiding in billions of pockets.
D
The Turing Machine
The theoretical foundation of all modern computing, conceived by Alan Turing before a single computer existed. Without it, none of the rest would follow.
E
The BBC Micro
The machine that taught a generation of British schoolchildren to code, sparking a homegrown software industry. Its legacy lives on in the Raspberry Pi.
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