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Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBay

Posted by kdawson on from the mother-of-us-all dept.

An anonymous reader sends the story of the rediscovery of an original painting of Ada Byron at about age 4, the girl who was to become Countess Lovelace and the world's first computer programmer. A US Army sergeant in Tajikistan caught wind of an eBay auction of a 180-year-old painting of Ada Byron, with provenance; he notified a programmer buddy in Texas, who won the auction.

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  1. I have an idea by ellenbee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a piece of the first code ever written

    1. Re:I have an idea by kaos07 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Same thing happens when Ubuntu's partitioner screws up. Oooooh, karma burn!

      No, seriously, Vista blows.

  2. Re:oh.... ADA Lovelace... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I knew that she could felate the hell out of a penis back in the 70s, but I had no idea she was a painter as well.

  3. Yuo Fail It! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the above is far = 1400 netBSD

  4. Re:oh.... ADA Lovelace... by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    your mind is full of filthy thoughts, shame on you.

  5. Re:A.I... by doktorjayd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    heh,

    i had a girlfriend in university whose honours thesis was on 'femminist themes in mary shelleys frankenstein'

    so, naturally i retort with 'monster story, MONSTER STORY'... .. needless to say, didnt last long.

  6. Re:A.I... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, Jeopardy might be the best career option open to you and the millions of other creative writing students out there who read Frankenstein.

    Seriously dude, this is SLASHDOT. Having read Frankenstein -- your learned discourse on its cultural implications included -- doesn't even place you in the top 1,000 most qualified Jeopardy candidates reading Slashdot.