The Pentagon's ADA programming language, which was intended to be the most important computer language, was named after Ada Lovelace in 1979. So she was fairly famous in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) … In her own lifetime (1815-52) she'd been a big celebrity, as had Babbagehttps://twitter.com/EvolutionistXX/status/970896726868537350 …
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The early days of hobby microcomputing (late 70s to early 80s) was very disconnected from professional IT, which only changed when the Apple II and IBM PC started to make their way into business in a big way.
1:36 AM - 7 Mar 2018
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