Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Swoon to Ada Lovelace (and Babbage)

What's cool? A Canadian woman's ongoing steampunk comic of Babbage and Ada Lovelace, early Victorian inventors of computing and crimefighters (ahem), that's what. Babbage was a proper academic (i.e. he never managed to build any of his Difference Engines, despite raising the cash) and Ada was the first geek software developer. And Byron's daughter.

Start here - the original strip.



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