Comment on Today In Computing History
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week agoNo 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.
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)