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Einar@lemmy.ml to Today I Learned (TIL)English · 2 years ago

TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.

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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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Ada Lovelace, English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose digital computer prototype, the Analytical Engine, she created a program in 1843. She has been called the first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace Day, the second Tuesday in October, honors women’s contributions to science and technology.
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    Virtualization came a fair bit later, but this might explain why they are called Virtual Machines and not Virtual Computers?

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      That’s what I meant, yes!

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