The Colossus computer, Bletchley Park, 1943.

UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 22: This shows a rectangular panel from Colossus, the world's first electronic programmable computer, at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Bletchley Park was the British forces' intelligence centre during WWII, where cryptographers deciphered top- secret military communiques between Hitler and his armed forces. The communiques were encrypted in the Lorenz code which the Germans considered unbreakable, but the codebreakers at Bletchley cracked the code with the help of Colossus, and so aided the Allies victory. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)