http://www.girlwithcomputer.com == exactly that. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.girlwithcomputer.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-407 One year ago today: what have your formative geek experiences in the past year been? | Geek Feminism Blog Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:44:27 +0000 http://www.girlwithcomputer.com/wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-407 [...] Girl With Computer (Ashley McClelland) has a post titled “One year ago today – Learning to Embrace the Tech Community”. One year ago today, I also had a very pivotal experience. I attended my first technical conference– an unconference, a barcamp — at the Rochester Institute of Technology… up until that point, I had only ever seen HTML and CSS (sparingly.) I was familiar with HTML and in-line styles. And I knew how to use things like myspace and facebook. My background was exclusively education and English (literature and writing.) I was interested in programming, but I felt a severe barrier to entry: I thought it was too technical for me… [...] [...] Girl With Computer (Ashley McClelland) has a post titled “One year ago today – Learning to Embrace the Tech Community”. One year ago today, I also had a very pivotal experience. I attended my first technical conference– an unconference, a barcamp — at the Rochester Institute of Technology… up until that point, I had only ever seen HTML and CSS (sparingly.) I was familiar with HTML and in-line styles. And I knew how to use things like myspace and facebook. My background was exclusively education and English (literature and writing.) I was interested in programming, but I felt a severe barrier to entry: I thought it was too technical for me… [...]

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