New Zealand. We built the first mechanical computer, the Totalizer. (Babbage designed one first, but never completed a working model.) We used it to calculate odds for horse races. It was gravity-powered and used the weight of a concrete block on a rope to turn gears.
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Linux. Finland.
Wouldn't have been created without the free universal education that provided Torvalds the free access to university's licenses and hardware.
Big one. Basically the whole modern world depends on Linux and I don't even think that's too much of an exaggeration
Linux itself probably doesn't get enough credit. People still think it's an obscure nerd OS.
Existing.