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She lived a fascinating life. As one of a small cohort of young men and women working in the “Tin Hut” at Ferranti’s Moston works, Berners-Lee was trained to w
by andrewl 9y ago
She lived a fascinating life.
As one of a small cohort of young men and women working in the “Tin Hut” at Ferranti’s Moston works, Berners-Lee was trained to write programs following a manual written by Alan Turing.
That feels almost on the order of She learned to kindle fire from instructiions given her by Prometheus.
- 8_hours_ago 9y agoOff topic: I got confused by the phrase kindle fire, until I remembered that it can also mean start a fire. Now the name of the tablet seems less arbitrary...
- Symbiote 9y agoStarting a fire is the default meaning of the word. Kindling as a noun is the twigs, leaves, moss or whatever used to start the fire.
- bhasi 9y agoOn that note, I also realized the connotation of "Tinder": combustible material which ignites upon coming into contact with sparks. Sparks fly when people meet - that sort of thing. Very clever indeed.
- improv32 9y agoI thought it had to do with matches
- ClassyJacket 9y agoAlso in Tinder gives you "matches" and the logo is a flame.
- darepublic 9y agoCan't start a fire without a spark
- godelmachine 9y agoI was ROLFing reading this
- minutillo 9y agoPossibly refers to this manual: http://www.panix.com/~rst/turing.pdf http://www.panix.com/~rst/turing.pdf
- chx 9y agoFrom Turing to Mary Lee Berners-Lee to Tim Berners-Lee -- it only took three generations from establishing the theory all computers stand upon and get to the World Wide Web. Fascinating.
- gowld 9y agoThe World Wide Web didn't depend on Turing's theories. Computing machinery went back to Babbage/Ada
- dboreham 9y agoSpeaking of Ferranti and programming mothers : my mother talked about how she had been a programmer of a Ferranti Pegasus before I was born. She worked for an insurance company but talked about having to travel across town to an engineering company to use their machine because theirs hadn't been delivered yet. Based on her recollections they were coding in assembler. She moved on to pursue a career in economics and never coded again. I found an article about the computer being delivered to the engineering company in 1960. The Pegasus was a mid-50's design (afaik unrelated to the Mk1) so I'm not sure if it was new or recycled from one of the initial customers. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/memory-lane/edinburghs-first-digital-compu-2010-11/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/memory-la... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Pegasus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Pegasus