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Engineering leader. Ithaca, NY. New dad. Many other things.

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Reblog if you're a partially muscled skeleton screaming for 30 seconds by the perimeter fence on November 14th

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Illustration from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Ronald Balfour (1920)

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The counterculture saw computers as tools in service to corporate and government power. Providing everyday people with access to the machines was a radical act.

Known as “St. Jude,” Jude Milhon was born in 1939 and became a self-taught programmer and advocate for civil rights and women in computing. In 1973, she and other hackers created Community Memory in Berkeley, California, a computerized bulletin board that was one of the first public computer network systems. Anyone could post messages on the terminal, which was connected to a mainframe timeshared computer the collective owned in San Francisco.

The Community Memory service offered bulletin boards, messages, classified ads, and more. Some were online extensions of the physical bulletin boards that were an institution in the record store in Berkeley where the terminal was located. Musicians quickly adapted to the machine to post information about concerts, to sell instruments, and connect.

Jude was committed to using her technical and writing skills to encourage women to join the world of computing. “Girls need modems!”

Far from being “hidden figures,” women have been working in computing since the earliest days of the new field. They’ve often faced gender b

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“Saturn Devouring His Son” (1819-1823) Francisco de Goya by = 。= : 2009-08-28 12:24 Info and original painting here

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advertising strategy for Hepatior, a 1930s medicine to treat liver ailments

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Details from an Ian Miller exhibition

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