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Tery Spataro shares her memories of getting online, learning to code, and developing her first corporate website, for Reebok in 1995. She gives praise to the women and men that inspired her, had the patience to teach and believe in her. Among the people she is grateful for helping her along the way is Caroline Kavanagh, Jerry Nevins, Courtney Pulitzer, …
Aliza Sherman shares her memories about her first encounters with computers and the Internet including founding Cybergrrl, Inc. and Webgrrls International. Aliza’s first computer was the Amstrad 1640. She pays tribute to Stacy Horn, of ECHONYC.
IN THE BEGINNING Somehow, I knew intuitively the Internet was the future as soon as I heard about it in the mid-90s. But what was it? News media were no help. Business friends thought I was crazy. Except one, a former client of my management consulting firm named Laura Berland. She had become an entrepreneur and was in the process …
Courtney Pulitzer remembering the early days of digital, technology and the internet. Courtney talks about getting online, and her first experience coding. She pays tribute to Stacy Horn, ECHONYC and Aliza Sherman.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, I asked the members of the Women’s Internet History project provide a minute or more video, reflecting on a story to share about their experiences being women working, participating, contributing to digital and technology, and their early days of the internet prior to the year 2000.
Why did you first get online? 1982. I was working in telecommunications and I came across what were then called electronic bulletin boards systems, aka BBS’s. I explored them for a while, but they were filled with teenage boys, and while they were occasionally charming in a “Big Bang Theory” way, they weren’t places I wanted to keep coming back …
Why did you first get online? Some time in early 1994. Didn’t do much for me in the early days, but Kyle (my husband) seemed excited about it. When did you first get involved with digital and why? In the early summer of 1994, Kyle and I took a 2 week vacation to the mountains of Pennsylvania and he brought …
Why did you first get online? I first got online in college. This was 1991 and 1992, and every few weeks I’d head to a computer room in a public building to check this weird but cool new thing called email. I’d send out a few messages and then return weeks later to see if the person I was connecting …
Why did you first get online? I used an intranet at Citibank as a VP in the Humanware department, from 1989 to 1991; at Downtown Digital, in the early 90’s, I used AOL. When did you first get involved with digital and why? My first involvement with digital was producing computer-assisted video discs in the 80’s. One project was for …
Why did you first get online? 1985 on a Hayes Smartmodem. Soon after, I joined an Amiga Users Group at Yale University and became a frequent contributor to their BBS. My passion for computing drove me to create digital animation and video art, MIDI music recordings and live performances, and to publish a series of communications as well as mouse-drawn …
