Claire L. Evans is the author of Broad Band: The Women Who Made The Internet (Portfolio, 2018).
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet
For Ada Lovelace Day, our 2018 story about the women who made the internet, with the author of “Broad Band” and the founder of EchoNYC.
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The Woman Who Linked The Web In A ‘Microcosm’
Hypertext links one thing to another on the Internet. But, in 1989, computer scientist Wendy Hall invented a specialized linkbase to build a more connected web.
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The Women Who Made The Internet
Silicon Valley may be notoriously male-dominated today. But a new book tells the stories of the women who have been building the internet since day one.