Babbage's Difference Engine was at heart a printing press. In order to do complex mathematics in the pre-electric era one would need to consult tables of mathematical "finite differences" (ala Differential Mathematics) and while there were printed books, the blocking was done by hand and extremely error prone. Babbage's initial creation was a self-calculating press that could for the first time reliably publish these tables. (See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BlbQsKpq3Ak.html for more info...)
I actually knew that the origins of programming began all the way back in 1800s and the textile industry. But, even still hearing it again, it's absolutely fascinating to hear that . Amazing story how we went from punch cards to modern circuit boards we have today.....mind blown .
Awesome video. Thank you!!! Writer is a tame description for Lord Byron. 😂 He was a poet and infamous hedonist (lover of his sister among many others). One of the Romantics with his close friend Percy Shelley. He’s was the catalyst for Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. There was an uncommon storm one summer where they were vacationing, he suggested they write ghost stories. She wrote the beginnings of Frankenstein. Byron’s vanity/arrogance was infamous and likely influenced the character of Dr Frankenstein.
So 1440 - Gutenberg invents the first printing Press, nearly 4000 years later we get the first punch cards, and since then we've seen the rate of expanding human ingenuity double again and again. It's like Moore's law taken to the extreme.
The amazing irony that passionate, professional programmers making a video about the history of programming....commence with a one-off error. THIS IS META
