Sunday, June 3, 2012

Yet the NYT Continues to Bombard Me With Bewildered Inquiries As To Why I Do Not Give Them Money!

Da menz Invented the Innernetz!  The NYT sez so!   By Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing.

LIKE HELL THEY DID!

[ " the opening graf (bold-ing, mine):


MEN invented the Internet. And not just any men. Men with pocket protectors. Men who idolized Mr. Spock and cried when Steve Jobs died. Nerds. Geeks. Give them their due. Without men, we would never know what our friends were doing five minutes ago.
You guys, ladies suck at technology and the New York Times is ON IT.
Radia "Mother of the Internet" Perlman and the ghosts of RADM Grace HopperAda Lovelace and every woman who worked in technology for the past 150 years frown upon you, sir. Women may have been invisible, but the work we did laid the groundwork for more visible advancements now credited to more famous men.
"Men are credited with inventing the internet." There. Fixed it for you.
I ragequit this article like, 10 times, and couldn't get past that awful opening line. But eventually, I managed to put down my frying pan and unbunch my apron, and I sat down on my princess tuffet and asked a man to help me read the whole thing. " ]

It goes on from there.

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