If my analysis is right, the RAM was first unconsciously invented by a silk weaver called Joseph Marie Jacquard, and all he intended was to make a machine that could automatically weave complex designs based on a set of instructions coded in perforated cards. This invention of the cards was then employed to allow early computers to store and read data. Then this invention was meant to be used by Charles Babbage and Lord Ada Augusta to create the "analytical machine", which was supposed to be a general-purpose machine capable of performing different functions based in programming, but could never be finished. Then, at 1887, Herman Hollerith decided to take on Charles' design of his analytical machine and designed some programs to improve the machine. In 1889 he then finished the machine, creating the first tabulating machine that could process 300 cards per minute (instructions and data). This then evolved to what is now well known as computers, and how they are capable of housing and reading data. Interesting shiz right there. Yeah. I'm geeking out here.