Note: It has since been remarked that the below information may not be correct. The quoted blurb appears verbatim all over the web, but is contradicted by some sources.

I don’t remember where I first saw it, but this timely blurb about my occupation is all over the web:

“April 12th, 1947: ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose programmable electronic computer, ran the first code written in the modern paradigm, marking the birth of computer programming as a profession.”