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Gutenberg was a blogger

by Tris Hussey on April 20, 2009 · 2 comments

We owe a huge debt to Johannes Gutenberg. Here’s a guy who just wanted to wrestle publication of The Bible out of the hands of The Church and monks and unwittingly (perhaps) set the stage for blogging.
The movable type printing press revolutionized how information was disseminated. If you wanted to rail against the government, printing up a broadsheet didn’t mean you and a bunch of folks hand copying your treatise, you wrote it, set the type (with the aid of your friendly neighbourhood printer), and just stay up running off [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day 2009 Women I admire in tech: Justine Ezarik and my daughter

by Tris Hussey on March 24, 2009 · 4 comments

in Blogging, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Are you not familiar with “The Queen of the Engines” (fine that’s a reference to The Difference Engine)? Ada Lovelace wasn’t just the first programmer, pushing Charles Babbage’s Difference and Analytical to beyond what Charles himself envisioned, I’d venture that Ada was the world’s first geek girl.
Here’s a women who bucked the Victorian trends of the day and did some kick ass stuff with “computers”, and we should all be grateful to her. Thus today, Ada Lovelace Day, a day to blog about women in tech you admire.
Honestly I had [...]

Tagged as: Ada Lovelace, adalovelacedaoy09, Blogging, geek girls, geek life, Social Media, Web 2.0, women in tech

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