![]() ![]() Another focuses on Dame Wendy Hall’s role in developing hypertext, just before the dawn of the World Wide Web. One section covers 1970s Bay Area digital bulletin board project Resource One, led by Berkeley computer science dropout Pam Hardt-English. It profiles some familiar figures, including Lovelace and Hopper, but it quickly jumps into fascinating lesser-known projects. ![]() A more nuanced version includes pioneers like Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper, who helped invent programming as we know it, or NASA’s “human computers.” But that narrative consigns women’s influence to the very beginning of computing history, dramatically contrasting them with today’s male-dominated Silicon Valley.īroad Band offers a rougher and more complicated version of the past. One is simplistic and linear: men built computers and the internet, and now women are struggling to break in. ![]() There are a couple of omnipresent narratives for the history of women in tech. The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet ![]()
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