"the cult goddess of cyber-feminism"

[perfectstranger]

Just read in The(ever informative)New Yorker(Mar.5) that the programming language used by the Dept. of Defense is named Ada, after a woman who is considered to have produced the 1st specimen of what would later be called computer programming.And would you believe that woman was Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron, also known as the Enchantress of

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[rowdiebird229]

I think it's really *funny* how history has conveniently left out a lot of important women.