
28 Mar
2010
28 Mar
'10
2:08 a.m.
On Mar 28, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Luke Palmer wrote:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Peter Verswyvelen
wrote: So the first computer nerd was.... a women??!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)
Yeah, and she was so attractive that the entire male gender spent the next 50 years trying to impress her.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace Ada Lovelace day was last week. She was a *real* programmer: had to figure out how to program the machine before it was built.