Broad Band – What History’s Female Internet Pioneers can Teach us about Tomorrow
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Claims that women built foundational Internet work gets specific evidence: human computers at Harvard catalog 10,000 stars and Annie Jump Cannon classifies three stars per minute; the six programmers of the ENIAC physically rewire a room-sized machine so it runs differential calculus in 15 seconds; commercial work produces UNIVAC and COBOL; Radia Perlman architects Ethernet; Wendy Hall’s Microcosm linkbase prevents link rot; Stacy Horn launches Echo BBS with 40% female users and teaches Unix to onboard them.
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