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Broad Band

By Claire L. Evans

The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. Portfolio, 2018.

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17 Key insights

A brief summary of Broad Band

Revealing the brilliant female contributors whose essential work, which has been buried beneath a cluster of chauvinistic propaganda in the past, led to the rise of computer technology and paved the way for how we interact online in the present day.

Key insights in Broad Band

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What do you get from this book? Discover the forgotten women who innovated technology and changed our world
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Women have been at the forefront of every major technological development for the last century
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Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace tried promoting a groundbreaking computing machine, but no one took them seriously
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Kilogirls were “human computers” who could mentally calculate information the way PCs do today
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Grace Hopper and the ENIAC Six ushered in a new dawn of female technicians
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After WWII, female programmers went through a period of fluctuation where they were valued one minute, and belittled the next
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As the sixties progressed and men established more stringent requirements for programmers, women left the tech field
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In the seventies, computers connected groups of likeminded people, though the women in charge remained out of sight
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ARPANET was plagued with technical issues resolved by women who never received credit for their work
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BBS systems allowed people across vast distances to interact with one another on nearly any topic
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HTML systems competed with the internet, but the Web provide a more user-friendly experience
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Women with strong social media presences pushed the boundaries of e-magazines without commercializing them
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Once women-oriented websites became saturated with ads, the value of their content degraded
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The challenges faced in the female cyber world reflect the challenges faced by women in reality
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Summary of the key insights
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read Broad Band

Technology gurus • engineers • computer programmers • feminists • anyone interested in true history

About the author of Broad Band

Claire L. Evans is a journalist, feminist, and singer. She has contributed to cultural and political publications such as The Guardian and Wired and was the previous editor for Vice magazine’s technology website. She has also written for National Geographic’s pop culture and science blog, Universe.

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Claire L. Evans

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