The computer wears a skirt in ‘Broad Band, the Untold Story of the Women who Made the Internet’

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With all our Snapchatting and Googling and tweeting, it's easy to forget that just 20 years ago, our main forms of communication were letters and phones, and we didn't know what our best friend was doing every single minute. Our brains have been taken over by an alien life form called the internet. 

How did this happen? In Broad Band, the Untold Story of the Women who Made the Internet (Penguin Random House), author Claire L. Evans details the evolution of the huge electronic tree that branches into so many aspects of our lives, with special emphasis on key women innovators (the book began as a series of articles about cyberfeminism Evans wrote for Motherboard, an online technology magazine).