{"id":1718,"date":"2014-08-23T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T12:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T19:32:48","slug":"loveless-and-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/loveless-and-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Loveless and Baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a proposed take-off on the burlesque British history <em>1066 and All That<\/em> tentatively titled <em>6502 and All That<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ada_Lovelace\">Ada Loveless<\/a> invented <a href=\"http:\/\/findingada.com\/\">female programmers<\/a>. Before her time, while there were no programmers, they were all male. This was a Good Thing, however, because during WWII <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieeeghn.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Women_Computers_in_World_War_II\">all computers were female<\/a>. In America, many of these computers were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awm.lee.army.mil\/pdfs_docs\/STEM-WAC%20History.pdf\">wax<\/a>, while in Britain they were usually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/revolution\/birth-of-the-computer\/4\/82\/332\">wrens<\/a> found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">belching in the park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ada Loveless was the daughter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omgfacts.com\/History\/The-first-computer-programmer-was-Lord-B\/52075\">famous author<\/a> and entrepreneur <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/\">H. P. Loveless<\/a>. When he was not writing horror stories, H. P. Loveless was busy founding <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hewlett-Packard\">HP<\/a>, a Packard dealership and <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.hp.com\/us\/en\/hp-information\/about-hp\/history\/hp-garage\/hp-garage.html\">garage<\/a> just off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/?q=180%20Woz%20Way,%20San%20Jose,%20CA%2095110\">Woz Way<\/a> in Silicon Valley. HP was famous for getting its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpalumni.org\/hp_way.htm\">Way<\/a>. Anyone who prevented HP from getting its Way was forced to donate several hours polishing the cars backwards. This was known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reverse_Polish_notation\">Reverse Polish Donation<\/a>, and was a Good Thing.<\/p>\n<p>Ada Loveless was British, and so of course was close friends with <a href=\"http:\/\/history-computer.com\/People\/BabbageBio.html\">Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin<\/a>, <a href=\"xxx\">Charles Bronson<\/a> (of the literary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/historic_figures\/bronte_sisters.shtml\">Bronson sisters<\/a>, Charles, Emily, and Ann), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/babbage\/charlesbabbage\/\">Charles Baggage<\/a>, an engineer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacquard_weaving\">Jacquard<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Turing\">Turing Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baggage was famous for not inventing the computer, which he didn&#8217;t do twice. He didn&#8217;t invent the computer so well that today he has a museum named after him, called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/\">Computer History Museum<\/a>. He also invented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=steampunk\">steampunk<\/a> and talking about technology at cocktail parties, so not inventing the computer was perhaps a Good Thing.<\/p>\n<p>Ada Loveless later joined the Navy and studied martial arts, at which time she was known as Grasshopper, or sometimes Admiral Grasshopper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a proposed take-off on the burlesque British history 1066 and All That tentatively titled 6502 and All That: Ada Loveless invented female programmers. Before her time, while there were no programmers, they were all male. This was a Good Thing, however, because during WWII all computers were female. 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