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  • Ada Lovelace Day: A Celebration of the World’s First Computer Programmer

    10/15/2013 3:08:58 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    Metro UK ^ | Tuesday 15 Oct 2013
    If you happen to do anything other than sleep in a cave today, chances are you have Ada Lovelace to thank for it. She is responsible for the first ever computer program. And she came up with it long before the computer even existed. Today is the fifth annual Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the achievement of a Victorian mother-of-three who would change the world. Let’s travel back through time for a moment. Before the ZX Spectrum and before the Atari 2600, there was a thing that historians like to call the 19th century. The computer may have existed as a...