Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

✍ Scribed by Evans, Claire L

• Book ID: 109575786
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 6 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780735211759

✦ Synopsis

The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation --they've just been erased from the story. Until now.
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize.
VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. Learn from Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who...