You know who would have been the perfect Victorian programmer?

Lewis Carrol ( Rev Charles Dodson, writer of Alice in Wonderland, as well as a mathematician ).

There were vast collections of knowledge in ancient repositories that were deliberately destroyed by conquerors who didn't understand what they were destroying or were afraid that this knowledge was too dangerous. Of course this isn't applicable to the victorian computer, but there are many inventions that we use now, that had been thought of hundreds if not thousands of years ago. Good post!