A Brief History of Computing

Ages 18+. Did you know that the first computer programmer was a woman born in 1815 and that the word 'computer' used to refer to a human who calculated for a living? In truth, humans have been computing for thousands of years. Dig into the history of computing, from ancient times to Silicon Valley.

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