How computing pioneers at Dartmouth in the 1960s gave rise to the macho tech culture we see today.
In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming explosion in American computing after college mathematics professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed a new programming language that was relatively easy to learn: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Tech-Bro Culture Was Written in the Code
https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/dartmouth-basic-computer-programmers-tech-bros.html
How computing pioneers at Dartmouth in the 1960s gave rise to the macho tech culture we see today.
In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming explosion in American computing after college mathematics professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed a new programming language that was relatively easy to learn: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC.