[PhantomGremlin]

Needs 2006 in title. Needs stupid JavaScript needed just to read it. Does stupid JavaScript games.

But it's actually decent content. It's an overview of how Babbage's Analytical Engine was intended to function. The implementation problem was that what Babbage wanted was way way way over-designed. E.g. 50 decimal digit arithmetic.

You know who are true geniuses in my book? The guys who wrote this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC

They started a trillion dollar company because they were smart enough to write a program that actually worked, that turned 1970s hardware into something that was useful to a lot of people.