Where did man find the idea of the first software how software came to this earth any body know?

Answer 1

The following article explains about the history of computers. Since software goes hand-in-hand with computer hardware, perhaps this will suggest and answer to when man first thought up software.

Especially interesting is how long calculators and "computing" looms have been around. People had been thinking about this sort of thing for hundreds of years before they had the tech to make computers as we know them.