the first programmer
Lady Lovelace daughter of the poet Lord Byron, ”...prone to depression and chronic gambling, at one point pawning her jewelry to pay off debts.” Sounds like your typical Mt. Dew slinging, vice-loving, genius nerd/hacker.
Remember the loom.
“Interestingly, the Jacquard loom, perfected by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1805, which we might regard as the world’s first computer display, had a resolution of 1000 silk threads to the inch, equaling that of paper. Jacquard’s loom was controlled by punched cards and foreshadowed the emergence of the punched card-based data processing industry 85 years later.”
16 May 2003, 14:32 ::
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