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 (DIR) Post #AzBaBeOHsoUxLdZuds by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
       2025-10-13T09:09:19Z
       
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       Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley ParkDeciphering enemy code during the second world war was arguably the first role for women in techby Suzanne Bearne (from the archives)https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2018/jul/24/meet-the-female-codebreakers-of-bletchley-park#womenInStem
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBaBfc9KlBH8v4Ut6 by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
       2025-10-13T10:26:07Z
       
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       It is unfortunate that some contemporary authors still underestimate the role Ada Lovelace played in computer science.Ada Lovelace at PG:https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75107#womenInStem #computerprogramming
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBaBgvKSw7JCh3KQC by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
       2025-10-13T11:17:18Z
       
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       @gutenberg_org she invented computer programming out of thin air. full stop.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBaBhSeT2lus2dwMS by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-14T02:28:10Z
       
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       @KI5SMN @gutenberg_org NOT to denigrate Lovelace! in any way, but I think the first practice that incorporates the fundamentals of programming were the conversion of images into cards that manipulated mechanisms that affected warp and weft in the first looms. Iterative only, but the mapping of placing holes on cards to directly the lifting of wires to impress images onto fabric is not one to one, but algorithmic. And also "women's work". That knowledge is very hard to find. It may be in histories related to weaving and textiles. It's certainly not in computing histories. A drawing was made; that image was transformed in some way to define discrete irregular patterns to the motion of the array of hooks that lifted thread.  I made some effort,c without access to good sources, to find such. That it was "women's work " may mean it's partly or entirely lost.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBatIqtKBEjHxlxui by ThreeSigma@mastodon.online
       2025-10-13T13:54:31Z
       
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       @gutenberg_org @tchambers FFS. “Tech” does not mean computers. “Technology” certainly does not. Pencils are a technology. The wheel is a technology.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBatJqDeAIEMASwVM by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-14T02:36:04Z
       
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       @ThreeSigma @gutenberg_org @tchambers I think we need to distinguish between instruments and "technology". Things that one makes to do things based upon science-derived or experience-deroved knowledge, like Galileo's telescopes, I think of as instruments. Analogous to musical instruments. The distinction has nothing to do with complexity or sophistication. It has more to do with the relationship to commerce. Galileo's telescopes I don't think of as technology at all. Technology isn't some automatically higher calling. It's value as a word is uncomfortably tied to manufacturing, and now, ideology.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBbHJKRCj0xiV2ZYO by ThreeSigma@mastodon.online
       2025-10-14T02:40:26Z
       
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       @tomjennings @gutenberg_org @tchambers Lens grinding is a technology.  Glass making is a technology. Although commercialization is tied to some connotations, any application of science can be called a technology, even if it’s not good for making money  yet. Like TeV-scale particle accelerators
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBgFoWqjOs5fqx3tQ by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-14T03:36:12Z
       
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       @ThreeSigma @gutenberg_org @tchambers Lens grinding when I do it at home is craft and maybe art. And I can bring in science, variably.When a corporation grinds lenses for sale, that's definitely technology.My friend David makes gear for radio telescopes, 4K He cooled detectors and very hig science, This involved lots of off the shelf commercial technology a small amount of crucial hand made detetor diodes, and for ends that are absolutely money-"losing", there's no money to be made, at all in scanning th distant sky. Science? Yes. Uses technologies? Absolutely. Produing texhnology? At best indirectlyParticle accellerators are similar.The WWW was spawned from a place of science. It has since become mostly technology.I'm not saying or implying technology is "bad", lesser etc. I'm just distinguishing it from art, craft, science.I'm also surprised how defensive people seem to get about the word "technology".