TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
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 scienc...
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Forget that, most of the first computers were women.
Google it. A 'computer' was a person employed to perform computations, and was a profession which generally employed women
And this is the reason people in IT often refer to computers as "machines", because at some point they started to replace the people doing the computations, and they needed to differentiate.
(At least that's the story I've heard)
Wow, that's wild. First time I've heard that. So a Virtual Machine is an instance of this?
Virtualization came a fair bit later, but this might explain why they are called Virtual Machines and not Virtual Computers?