The first known use of the word "computer" was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans

Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwait: "I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the
best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number." It referred to
a person who carried out calculations, or computations. The word continued with the same meaning
until the middle of the 20th century. From the end of the 19th century the word began to take on its
more familiar meaning, a machine that carries out computations. [3]