Post #44096
2025-12-09 04:12 UTC
The first computers were mostly women so… (originally being a computer was a profession which basically meant being paid to do calculations.)
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@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 05:08
No no no. Silly! Women were tied to stakes and burned as witches if they were discovered to know how to do math. And speaking of which, I’m surprised a return to that wasn’t part of project 2025.
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@Zwiebel@feddit.org 2025-12-09 08:05
Also Ada Lovelace wrote the first modern computer programm in 1843