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Babbage invented the computer, Ada invented the programming language that would be used to program it. She even wrote the first ever bug in it.
https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html
"In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering here is v4 / v5. This may well have been a typesetting error and not an error in the program that Lovelace devised. All the same, this must be the oldest bug in computing. I marveled that, for ten minutes or so, unknowingly, I had wrestled with this first ever bug."
That wasn't the first bug; it couldn't have been because the term hadn't been coined yet. It was just the first programming mistake.
The first computer bug was found by Grace Hopper, and was caused by an actual insect that had gotten into the machine.
This is a myth; the term "bug" for mistake predates the famous moth incident.
The pun doesn't even make sense unless the term was already in common use when Hopper wrote it. If you don't already know what a computer bug is, the note sounds deranged.
Lou Gehrig was the first person to get Lou Gehrig's disease.