binfalse
Did you know? The word #computer used to refer to a human, who carried out calculations or computations! Especially women were often computers, because of the lower salary...
> A female computer, with microscope and calculator
#soundsweird from today's perspective
Scott Mortimer
Of course women were the original "computers". That's how multi-tasking and parallel processing began!
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