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Broad Band

12 min read 17 min listen Narrated by Sam
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What’s it about?

A hidden history of the women who built the internet, from Victorian computers to the architects of the modern web.

You’ll learn

  • Women programmed the first computer, ENIAC
  • Grace Hopper invented the compiler
  • Radia Perlman created the spanning-tree protocol
  • Early online communities were shaped by women