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What was Ada Lovelace's significant contribution to the early history of computers?

  • Inventing the first computer

  • Writing the first computer program

  • Building the first Analytical Engine

  • Inventing the internet

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Ada Lovelace is credited with writing the world's first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper. This makes her the first to recognize the full potential of a "computing machine" and the first computer programmer.
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