dropkickdisco's review against another edition
5.0
This book is easily my favorite book I've read all year, one of my favorite non fiction books ever, and a book I'll never forget. I was so encapsulated in it, I read it all in one day.
if you are in any way interested or invested in tech and/or feminism, then I insist you read this book
the book walks us all the way from Ada Lovelace to and through the dot com boom/burst. This was my one problem with the book: it ended. I can only hope that there will be a follow up with more on the modern works and woes of women in tech.
if you are in any way interested or invested in tech and/or feminism, then I insist you read this book
the book walks us all the way from Ada Lovelace to and through the dot com boom/burst. This was my one problem with the book: it ended. I can only hope that there will be a follow up with more on the modern works and woes of women in tech.
bak8382's review against another edition
4.0
When reading the flap copy it's easy to think you might only be learning about four women, and two of them I already knew about (from picture books no less!), and I was worried I wouldn't be reading about things I didn't already know. I totally underestimated this book. There are many more fascinating women profiled here spanning the 1880s to today. Evans delves into both computer programmers and those leading the forefront of the Internet. Especially fascinating to me was the section on hypertext where they discussed how much more sophisticated it was than the World Wide Web which eventually became the Internet we know today. A great read highlighting women's accomplishments in an industry still predominately thought of as accomplished by men.
harukanoishiki's review against another edition
medium-paced
5.0
Well written for a tech history nonfiction. Feminist but unassumingly so
suzemews's review against another edition
4.0
This is just an incredible book! It's a wonderful history of how our internet in 2019 came to be - and it highlights the often forgotten women who worked to make it that way.