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vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The first computers were mostly women so… (originally being a computer was a profession which basically meant being paid to do calculations.)

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Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Also Ada Lovelace wrote the first modern computer programm in 1843

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- vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That is true. Lovelace and Margaret Hamilton are both great women in computing. Arguably up there with babage and turing but not nearly as well known.
  
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
No no no. Silly! Women were tied to stakes and burned as witches if they were discovered to know how to do math.

And speaking of which, I’m surprised a return to that wasn’t part of project 2025.

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- vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Actually only two “witches” were burned, about 70% were acquitted and almost the rest were hanged. That’s atleast true in England, don’t know about the figures for the US.
  
  As evidence of the computers comment here’s Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
  
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