This book covers a lot of ground, shining a light on history’s missing leading ladies of the digital revolution. It also reminds us of the cautionary tale that not all of history is attributed properly.įrom Ada King (Lord Byron’s daughter) and the Analytical Engine to the early computers “that wore skirts” and the pioneering programmers they became like Katherine Johnson and Grace Hopper, to Patricia Crowther the inspiration for the first blockbuster computer game Adventure, to those female pioneers in the networking age of Jake Feinler, Radia Perlman, Stacy Horn, Dame Wendy Hall, and Marissa Bowe to name a few. Evans does an exceptional job of not only spotlighting the forgotten heroes but drawing lines from their work (some of it their life’s work) to the accomplishments and breakthroughs that lead to the Internet as we know it today. Evans brilliant words “This book is about women,” but it also raises more questions about the marginalized and forgotten heroes of every revolution, not just the digital one that brought about the Internet.īut that is the focus of this book. They’ve just been erased from the story-until now.” But from the first computer programmer in the nineteenth century through the cyberpunk era of the 1990s, female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of tech and innovation. “The history of technology that you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers.
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