Phone switchboard operators, heavily leveled-up?
Computers are just fancy phones.
t. once saw part of a documentary I wasn’t paying attention to decades ago about early computer nerds hacking by reproducing noises over the phone
My favorite part is they figured out a whistle toy from a box of Captin Crunch probuced the 2600hz sound needed to hack the phones. This lead to the publication of “2600” a hackers magizine.
Hahaha, I remember that from The Anarchists’ Cookbook.
So, the two Steves (Woz & Jobs) evidently pulled that off at some point, becoming able to place long-distance calls, but it seems that got shut down not too long afterwards…
Computers used to be people. i.e. people who did a lot of computation by hand or with tools like slide rules.
Teams of people, often women from the late nineteenth century onwards, were used to undertake long and often tedious calculations; the work was divided so that this could be done in parallel. The same calculations were frequently performed independently by separate teams to check the correctness of the results.
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Human computers played integral roles in the World War II war effort in the United States, and because of the depletion of the male labor force due to the draft, many computers during World War II were women, frequently with degrees in mathematics.
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As electrical computers became more available, human computers, especially women, were drafted as some of the first computer programmers.[47] Because the six people responsible for setting up problems on the ENIAC (the first general-purpose electronic digital computer built at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II) were drafted from a corps of human computers, the world’s first professional computer programmers were women, namely: Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Jean Jennings, and Fran Bilas.[48]
Oh gosh, you made my day with that comment.
Sergio-- do you have a community that I could follow…?
A community? uh… take a look at these feeds:
- high signal, low noise: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
- memes and humor: https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
Oh, cool! I hadn’t looked in to feeds, yet.
Excellent, thanks.
Feeds are awesome. If you’re on the piefed web interface,
- under the “Explore” menu click on “My Feeds”
- click on the “New Feed” button
- you just need to give the feed a name and a list of communities, then click Save
That’s it. Besides the two above, I have a smaller one of essential communities that I want to make sure I don’t miss posts on (like EuroGraphicNovels!)
Got it, found it, tried it, love it.
(pardon me, that Daft Punk song just popped in my head)So… looks like subscribing to a feed auto-subscribes me to a bunch of communities, which actually I’m not that keen on. I opted out of one just now, and I guess that works well enough, but I guess the ideal thing would be if feeds could be added to the criteria by which to sort streams by.
if you’re looking at someone else’s feed, you can click “Copy Feed” and you can scroll down to see the list of communities it includes. you can then copy and add them to your own feed and pick-and-choose the ones you want. Dunno if that helps.
