Amaya Toman The time jump between the events we mention in today's article will be quite large. We will remember the anniversary of the birth of the mathematician Ada King (1815) and the first appearance of the now cult first-person shooter DOOM (1993).
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Birth of Ada King, Lady Lovelace (1815)
On December 10, 1815, the famous mathematician Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was born in London. Her father was Lord Byron himself. Augusta received an education from the best teachers and lecturers, and also completed advanced studies in mathematics with the famous mathematician Augustus De Morgan. In her youth, she met the British mathematician Charles Babbage, who, among other things, was also involved in the development of the so-called analytical engine. A little later, she translated an article by the Italian military analyst Luigi Menabre on the subject and supplemented it with notes mentioning an algorithm intended to be executed by a machine. Ada was heavily involved in the future of computers and programming, and the Ada programming language was named in her honor in the late XNUMXs.
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Unofficial DOOM (1993)
On December 10, 1993, a copy of a new interesting first-person shooter appeared on the server of the University of Wisconsin. It turned out to be an unofficial shareware version of DOOM, which over time became practically a cult. Doom emerged from the workshop of ID Software, and is still considered by many to be one of the best and most essential shooters in the history of computer games. Practically from the beginning, DOOM offered a number of new technologies, including improved 3D graphics, the ability to play over the network or support for editing via map files (WAD). A year later, DOOM II was released.
