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Man, what an experience! I got goosebumps just reading that. So much history you could have learned. It's a shame you only got one evening with them. I mean you
by stuff4ben 3y ago
Man, what an experience! I got goosebumps just reading that. So much history you could have learned. It's a shame you only got one evening with them. I mean you were with the pioneers of our field. It's like if you just happened to go out to dinner with a bunch of old men and they casually reveal, yes we played baseball too back in NY in 1932, hi, my name is George...
- danielvaughn 3y agoYeah it was quite an experience. They were very old - in their late 70's. I got the sense that they retired somewhere between 1980-1990, which kinda tracks with the sudden gender imbalance in the field. Prior to the 80's, computing had a larger percentage of women in the industry. I also got the sense that even though they knew Bells Labs was important, they weren't quite aware of just how fundamental it was to...well basically everything we do today.