You're correct. *Yes, I was aware of Ada Lovelace, but what
   fascinated me about this is that it was the first working
   computer program that was used. Nobody heralds it. *I mean
   people herald efforts even before Ada Lovelace; the predecessors
   of Babbage were programmable knitting machines and the like fed
   by paper-tape. But here's the first program of our era that was
   used. *There's no mysterious mythological mechanical beast of a
   machine to inspire our imaginations about the forward thinking
   man who never completed his work and his beautiful programmer
   friend. Rather, it's just a simple program that did something
   that's in a DIRECT LINE to us today. *No gap. *Part of the same
   lineage. that's what makes this stand out for me.