How did software start?

[u/Mastbubbles]

https://sheets.works/data-viz/how-did-software-start

[u/hdufort]

They could have started further back in time wirh:

• the abacus (arithmetic algorithms performed manually on a calculation/storage device)
• al-Khwārizmī invented algorithms
• Blaise Pascal invented early calculators
• Jacquard invented punched cards, which were chained to control production machines
• Babbage invented the first complex computer (analytical engine)
• Ava Lovelace invented programming