![]() This is all a far cry from the white, middle-class male stereotype that defines Silicon Valley today. In fact, there was a prevailing view back then that computing was women’s work, as a 1967 Cosmopolitan magazine article shows. Addams is the creator of The Addams Family and is famous for his darkly humorous cartoons.īut look a little closer and you see a solitary female an acknowledgement if you will that the world knew even then that the programmers of the time were women. ![]() ![]() The Addams cover is at first quaint, revealing how the world in the 1960s perceived computing in terms of giant machines. Inspired by a 1961 Valentine’s cover in the New Yorker by Charles Addams and recent events, let’s hear it for the girls. To some they were ‘operators’, to others they were the ‘computer girls’, but the real pioneers of computing and coding were women. ![]()
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