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Who invented the computer?
Charles Babbage in about 1842. He did not have enough money to build it, however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

When, where, and by whom was the first operating electronic computer built?
When: 1937; Where: Iowa State University; by whom: John Vincent Atanasoff & Clifford Berry. At the time, absolutely nobody was remotely intested.
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml

Who wrote the first computer program?
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

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