The First Educational Computer Game Was Made by a Woman over 60 Years Ago

Over 60 years ago the first narrative video game designer, Mabel Addis, created the first educational computer game: The ...
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Programmer Who Saw a World that Wasn’t There Yet

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...
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Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

This message itself was nothing special; it was meant to be the word "login," but the system crashed before it could be completed. However, the transmission was revolutionary, because it formed the ...