Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. Meet Elizabeth “Jake” Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Evan’s excellently titled new book, Broad Band, where she tells the stories of the unsung women pioneers who have been building the internet since day one: I’m a couple days late of International Women’s Day, but it’s never a bad time to celebrate the things women have done for our modern way of life.
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