Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs.
Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II.
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. VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. They may have been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize, but they have always been part of the story. In fact, women turn up at the very beginning of every important wave in technology. The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers-but from Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program in the Victorian Age, to the cyberpunk Web designers of the 1990s, female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation. "This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man. She has also written for Vice, The Guardian, Wired and Aeon and in 2013 became editor-in-chief of OMNI Reboot, the online version of the science magazine OMNI.If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet-written out of history, until now. Learn about their inventions and contributions that touch our lives in ways we don’t even realise.Ĭlaire writes the popular science and culture blog Universe, which is hosted by National Geographic's Scienceblogs network one of her essays within this, titled "Moon Art: Fallen Astronaut" was anthologised in The Best Science Writing Online 2012. It’s not because the female counterpart hasn’t contributed to creating the internet, but simply that they’ve been hidden from the limelight. When you think of the big names in technology, names like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Tim Berners-Lee spring to mind.īut what about women? How many can you name? She is the lead singer and co-author of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, an advisor to graduate design students at ArtCenter College of Design and is a member of the cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. Evans is a singer, writer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. Broadband: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the InternetĬlaire L.
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