Computer science began in the ‘30s … the 1830s. Computer programmer John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered “analytical engine” and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers.
Also see the story of the world’s first “computer,” the Antikythera Mechanism, circa 150 B.C.
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