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The patriarchy is the reason you know the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, but you've never even once heard the name Evelyn Berezin.
antoine ๐@LadyDragonfly This is sadly trueโฆ There is still a great section about the awesome work of Evelyn Berezin in _Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing_ by @mkirschenbaum !
Jasper ๐@antoinentl @LadyDragonfly @mkirschenbaum the part about all the stuff that wouldn't exist is hyperbolic, actually.
I'll have shut up about it, but intentionally being incorrect, seems unnecessary to me, and bugged me.
@jasper @antoinentl @mkirschenbaum stop the presses everyone, a man has arrived to dismiss the achievements of women.
@LadyDragonfly @antoinentl @mkirschenbaum for <X> invented <Y>, almost always, someone would have.
Like Dijkstras algorithm, it's pretty obvious, to someone competent hammering at the problem tbh.(which is fine) So is this.
I read the wikipedia page, it's impressive, but these inventions wouldah happened without her. I ain't doing your purity test.
Matthew Kirschenbaum@jasper @LadyDragonfly @antoinentl My dude. The history here is complex and nuanced, as real history often is. Iโve talked to the engineers who built the first commercial word processor at IBM. I spent a week in the archives at Microsoft. I interviewed Evelyn Berezin before her death. I then literally wrote the book on this. You are well out of your depth. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417076
Track Changes โ Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg's shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?
@mkirschenbaum @jasper @antoinentl
"I read the Wikipedia page"
"I literally wrote the book on this"
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Zitrone@LadyDragonfly well, @jasper, this post was about patriachy, not inventions that would have come to light anyways, right? and usually the ones being first, get the credits, like j.b.lindsay for the light-bulb ;) wich is a good example since soo many people invented it.
and (this probably doesnt apply to the both of you but) maybe stop hailing people at all? especially those who didnt even invent anything, like that scottish fruit business dude?
and (this probably doesnt apply to the both of you but) maybe stop hailing people at all? especially those who didnt even invent anything, like that scottish fruit business dude?
AccordionBruce@mkirschenbaum @jasper @LadyDragonfly @antoinentl
That reply put your book on hold for me at the #VancouverPublicLibrary ๐
History is almost always richer the more we look at the folks who arenโt the big leaders and crowd pleasers
And object history is fun
I just bought @mwicharyโs #ShiftHappens book on keyboards
Yours fits right next to Craig Robertsonโs The Filing Cabinet ๐๏ธ in an office technologist bookshelf
SteveBologna
StoneAI@jasper @LadyDragonfly @antoinentl @mkirschenbaum
hmm... that's like saying everything is pretty obvious in hindsight...