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aortega
on March 24, 2014
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The Brutal Ageism of Tech
The fact that you can name by memory the people that worked in the 40's means that the size of the computer science community back then was tiny.
Gormo
on March 25, 2014
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He didn't say that those were
all
of the people working on computers in the 40s.
csixty4
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Exactly. Just like how history doesn't celebrate the names of everybody who worked for Thomas Edison, there were hundreds if not thousands of people toiling away in anonymity underneath these giants.
Edit: And many more "giants", of course…
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