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What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967
New submitter niittyniemi writes: There's a rather interesting photo-gallery over at The Guardianwhich gives an indication of what life was like at Bell Labs c.1967. This was the year that DennisRitchie joined Bell Labs and went on to produce a body of work which hasbeen pretty much unrivaled in its influence on the modern computinglandscape, even some 50 years later. What's noticeable about the pictures, is that they are of woman. I don'tthink this is a result of the photographer just photographing "eye candy". Ithink it's because he was surrounded by women, whom from his comments hevery much respected and hence photographed. In those times, wrangling with a computer was very much seen as "clericalwork" and therefore the domain of woman. This can be seen as far back asBletchley Park and before that Ada Lovelace. Yet 50 years later, the IT industry has turned full-circle. Look at any ITcompany and the percentage of women doing software development or similar iswoeful. Why and how has this happened? Discuss.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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