Me: this presentation is done! it's perfect! *ten minutes after reading another early internet RFC* Me: wow another amazing woman who literally made sure the internet didn't break and prevented men from releasing protocols into the wild with specs
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TIL about Joyce K. Reynolds. She's the reason things like Telnet, FTP, and POP are well documented. She also was informal head of IANA for literally decades.
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Did you know, Glenda Schroeder wrote the first spec for an email protocol, and invented the command line interface.
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My talk isn't about women who pioneered the early internet. It's about the weird shit that is still in place because of early internet peeps not knowing how far their experiments would go. It just also happens to feature a lot of women.
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A propos of nothing, have you ever heard the story about how the Hubble telescope's mirror was limited by the width of a horse's ass?
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