Today In Computing History

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• vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also Ada Lovelace wrote the first modern computer programm in 1843

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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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• cliffracer_cloaka@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Windows weren’t a fully fledged OS back then, only a weather widget.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also a very local chat program.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i’d kill a man for this window

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    She clearly did, the skull is on the bottom shelf.

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If she can pick grapes from her window and have a view like that, clearly worth it.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I actually recognize the streets in the window (I studied and worked in Mechelen for years).

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• not_me@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Window is open ,and it still works ,
  NO BSOD ?🤣

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