People are always curious as to who or what came first. Who made the first telephone? Who was the first to climb Mount Everest? What was the first computer? There are simple answers (e.g. Alexander Graham Bell, Edmund Hillary, Atanasoff-Berry Computer, respectively), but they’re not always necessarily the right ones as there might be contesting accounts (e.g. Antonio Meucci, Norgay Tenzing, The Difference Engine).