Umfang:
278 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
Ausgabe:
paperback edition
ISBN:
9780593329443
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9780735211759
Inhalt:
The history of the Internet is more than just alpha nerds, brogrammers, and garage-to-riches male billionaires. The true history of the Internet is female. Female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation, but they've been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. VICE reporte Claire L. Evans finally gives these female technologists their due. In a world where tech companies are still male-dominated and women are often dissuaded from STEM careers, Broad Band shines a much-needed light on the bright minds history forgot, from pioneering database poets, data wranglers, and hypertext dreamers to glass-ceiling-shattering dot-com-era entrepreneurs. Get to know Ada Lovelace, who wove the first computer program in 1842, and Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing after World War II. Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, the New York cyberpunk who founded one of the world's earliest social networks, Echo. In this electrifying corrective to tech history, Evans introduces us all to our long-overlooked tech mothers and grandmothers, upending the notion that tech history belongs to the boy's club of Silicon Valley.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780735211766
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Informatik
Schlagwort(e):
Informationstechnik
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Computer
;
Internet
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Informatikerin
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Frau
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Geschichte 1800-2018
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