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Excerpt: Chapter 4 – The War Over Internet and The Internet at War
One woman, Loraine Oliver, saw the problems immediately and took her male superiors aside, explaining to them that women were no longer interested in light labor and dictation, insisting that they be introduced to the heavy labor involved in Internet, just as their counterparts in warhead manufacture were no longer restricted to painting serial numbers on bullets, like so many copper fingernails.
Though it took nearly two years before the changes would be implemented by act of Congress, a woman as prominent as Eleanor Roosevelt stood behind the Women’s Information Corps as a champion of their cause, hoping for an “Irene Internet.” It was due to such support that, in 1943, President Roosevelt signed an honorary law allowing women in Internet to “work with their delicate hands.” Oliver treated the document as her passport toward workplace rights, and was shortly thereafter named head of Internet Technologies for the War Department, honorarily.
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Fake WWII Pictures (link below)
Sorry, last one for tonight. Around 2000, my best friend Dan Gomiller was kind enough to humor me and wear my WWII-era uniform for a series of fake WWII photos. It was fun, and with the wonky lens, a lot of them had some interesting and unexpected focal points.
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