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Lovelace and Babbage

Posted by sydney on Sunday, January 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The pocket universe that opened up out of nowhere and swallowed my life. As featured in Wired and the BBC, THRILL to the amazing exploits of the crime-fighting duo at the dawn of the digital age, only at 2dgoggles.com

Lovelace and Babbage started on this blog with what was meant as a one-shot gag. The internet failed to understand that it was a JOKE.. there was in fact no comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage fighting crime. There still isn’t really but it’s now the world’s longest punchline. If you’re here for the comic you need to be at 2dgoggles, that’s where all the action is. And the monkeys. Oohh, so many monkeys.

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