Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
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#2The (changed) title made me think that there is some nasty hack that breaks computers by showing a hidden image of something called "Colossus code" to the user:
Unseen images of Colossus code / breaking computer
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#3Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field.
See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
Re: Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
#4Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, the very first programmer in the world ever, was a woman as well.
She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.
And she was one of the first to make a program for it.
Re: Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
#5Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
Good links, thank you!
Re: Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
#6The (changed) title made me think that there is some nasty hack that breaks computers by showing a hidden image of something called "Colossus code" to the user: Unseen images of Colossus code / breaking computer
Yeah...still trying to understand when is ok to change the tittle...
Re: Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
#7Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
Maybe the data entry bit was seen as more of a secretarial role, rather than an engineering one?
Re: Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
#8Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
Maybe the data entry bit was seen as more of a secretarial role, rather than an engineering one?
There is a long history of involvement of women in these sort of roles, for various reasons. [0]
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#10Imagine the code breaking computers the NSA and MSS has today wow