![]() ![]() Grace Hopper, a navy admiral and mathematician created machine-independent programming languages. Join the ranks of women who have pioneered technology, like Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wrote the first program for a mechanical computer. These innovators, concentrating where computers have made our lives better, richer, and more connected, are the unsung heroes of network culture. VICE futures editor and lead singer of the band YACHT Claire Evans presents the first social history of women and the internet. Before Steve Jobs put a personal computer in your hands before Larry Page and Sergey Brin put any answer at your fingertips before Mark Zuckerberg connected you to your long-lost friends, female visionaries were at the vanguard of the technology you love (and love to hate). ![]()
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