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Ada Lovelace: The Translator's Appendix
The founding document of computer science was technically a footnote.
In 1843, Ada Lovelace published what would become the most important paper in 19th-century computing. It appeared as a translator's appendix to someone else's article, signed only with her initials. The form tells you as much about the era as the content does.
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