Was having a twitter conversation earlier about how my mum has met more people URL2IRL than I have and is on tumblr and I was just thinking... I didn't post anything for Ada Lovelace Day this week (although I did go to this this cool event) but in retrospect the person in technology who inspired me most is my mum:
She went to university to do science and IT after having three children, becoming the first person in my family to go to university actually finish a degree. I'm pretty sure she had to put up with a lot of shit from the younger guys in her classes
She explained programming to me
She later became a reception teacher (equivalent to kindergarten I think?) and also the head of IT for her school
She taught me to use Excel really well, which is still up there when it comes to my employable skills
She... didn't teach me how to take computers apart and put them together, because I never got any good at that, unlike her
She was really good at Lemmings and Supaplex, which are bloody difficult games when you get far in them
and she was chatting to and meeting people on the internet from a comparatively early point, and was cool but sensible when it came to me doing the same (when I was 17 I went to Glastonbury festival with someone I met on the internet! But she had to come round and have tea with my parents first!)
