Pre-Renaissance? No. (I suppose there might have been some related concept prior to that time but the best answer is clearly No. Also, please don't now ask me a whole bunch of questions in an attempt to date the AOTC, since I am unable to give a clear answer. I can tell you that the google ngram viewer suggests that the phrase on the card seems to have started coming into significant use in the mid 1800s.)

Also, I guess I should clarify that the connection of the AOTC to computers is pretty tangential. I probably should just have said a simple No.

To do with economics? No. (Except very tangentially blahblahblah.)

Particular geographic location? Good question! In principle, no, and the AOTC has been relevant in various places in the past and in the present. But it's fair to say that, recently, it has a strong association with a particularly geographic location. So I'm going with Yes.

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And what does recently mean, you might ask? Well, it means both in the last couple of decades and in the last year in particular.