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How computers changed the Second World War and all future digital communications

A look at the creation of one of the first computers in 1943 called Colossus. It was designed and programmed to solve a specific problem of breaking German encrypted messages quicker than humans could. Interviews and images from the National Computing Museum at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes combined with animations and newsreels help to explain what encryption is and how the use of one of the world鈥檚 first digital computers helped to shorten the war by up to two years. Short animations, interviews and narrator explanations also address how problem solving and encryption is relevant to modern computing and data communications.

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