TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
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Ada Lovelace | Biography, Computer, & Facts
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TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
Ada Lovelace | Biography, Computer, & Facts
Forget that, most of the first computers were women.
Google it. A 'computer' was a person employed to perform computations, and was a profession which generally employed women
And this is the reason people in IT often refer to computers as "machines", because at some point they started to replace the people doing the computations, and they needed to differentiate.
(At least that's the story I've heard)
Wow, that's wild. First time I've heard that. So a Virtual Machine is an instance of this?