Women You Should Thank Every Time You Use a Computer

These smart women made for some significant and groundbreaking changes in technology, and so we here at the Viewired review team celebrate them!

She changed how computers work

Grace Hopper was instrumental in creating modern programming languages used by the likes of Microsoft. She believed that programming language should use English rather than machine code, revolutionizing technology in the mid-1900s. Hopper also invented the term “debugging” when she pulled a stuck moth out of a computer.

She made computers friendly

Graphic designer Susan Kare created many of the cheery Macintosh icons, fonts, and other elements that are still used today. She made the “Command” key icon, the “paint bucket” icon now widely used in image editing programs, the “Chicago” font, and more.

She helped create the internet

Radia Perlman resists being called “the mother of the internet,” though the nickname has stuck for a reason. The network protocols she developed in the 1980s helped lay the groundwork for the connectivity we enjoy today.

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