The first programmer lived before computers

The first program in history was written by a woman in 1843, almost a century before the first computer existed.

Ada Lovelace studied the analytical engine that Charles Babbage had only imagined on paper, and wrote a complete algorithm for it. But she went further than anyone of her time: she sensed that those machines would not serve only to do sums, but that one day they might compose music or create art.

It took a century to prove her right.