The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

The film provides an informative overview of the weaving process, highlighting the interlocking of warp and weft threads to create fabric. It explains the use of various looms, such as the backstrap ...

Before IBM, before punch-card computers, before Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, one of the very first machines that could run something like what we now call a "program" was used to make fabric.

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...