20th August 2003, 11:52 PM
If they didn't copycat they would have just made something up on their own... I know this because of course I have access to a database of all possible realities and I checked into it :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)