00:00There's an argument to be made that the Inca people invented the first computer
00:05system 600 years ago. Is it a good argument? Maybe not. But what they did
00:13have was a system of complicated knots and ropes. They're called khipus and
00:20recently there was a team of computer scientists that took the theory and the
00:27structure behind these ancient recording devices. I mean they held we don't we're
00:34not a hundred percent sure what they held it could have been anything but from
00:38census data to taxes to there's a chance that some people think they held actual
00:43language but there was a group of computer scientists that recently took
00:48that recording device and translated it into functioning computer code. They
00:54called the file format qpu to reference the spelling of khipu which is
01:00delightful and they used it to create three different computer systems. They
01:06had a spreadsheet a full file system and an image representation tool and all three
01:12of them worked fully based on the logic of the ancient khipu. They even according
01:18to the researchers have like an innate capability for encryption because you
01:23could move all the knots and ropes around really easily and if you translate that
01:27to computer code it makes it really hard to break into a system that you're not
01:31familiar with. Interesting stuff.
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