Categories: GeekPlay

Babbage and Lovelace Get the “Space: 1999” Treatment

What happens when you take computing’s proto-heroes Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, turn them into characters in a steampunk adventure television series with a title sequence lifted directly from Space: 1999? You get Albion: 1849, a series with a themes similar to The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne.

[Found via 2D Goggles, via Rob Miles’ blog.]

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

Joey deVilla

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