In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle.
They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training.
Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades.
The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵
@seananmcguire @Secret_Squidgle Lesser Black-backed gull, says Merlin. The ones I've seen imitating loud pigeons at all hours in Glasgow have all been these.
@LeanneWain @maskofbun A few people in my book club started out not liking it because they had issues with Red, but finished it, because book club. And loved it.
@AlyssaInAmerica@MerriamWebster Eh, anglicization will probably come for it sometime. I like to compare charade (rhymes with aid in American but not English) and comrade(rhymes in English, but not American).
@NYTGames If you click through Vertex or another of the games with WEB in the corner. Ignore the game and click the hamburger menu. Then select All Games.
@NYTGames Hey, Android app users! I found the Acrostic! It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard. Seriously, though..
@NYTGames Then go down past today’s crosswords, and the colored puzzles, and Get it On Google Play, & the Monthly Bonus, & the Last Seven Days, & In Progress, & the stats, & the tricky More menu, and the Featured Article on How to Solve the NYT Crossword. Lo! Variety Puzzles! Acrostic!
@fheaney@NYTGames But it does include All Games at the bottom. If I click through there and then go down ~5 pages past all the games and the Google Play link and how to solve, there they are!
@fheaney@NYTGames I found them! A couple of the games in the app have a little WEB tag in the corner, e.g., Vertex. So to get to the Acrostic, I open Vertex and ignore it, choosing instead the hamburger menu. That has lots of items, not including the acrostic.