Bibliograph

Broad band, the untold story of the women who made the internet, Claire L. Evans

Type

Label

Broad band, the untold story of the women who made the internet, Claire L. Evans

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Broad band

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Claire L. Evans

Sub title

the untold story of the women who made the internet

Summary

The history of the internet is more than just alpha nerds, brogrammers, and male garage-to-riches billionaires. 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. 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

Target audience

adult

Creator