--- title: No Web Without Women | daily.dev description: Learn about the pioneering women in tech who made significant contributions to computer programming, network technology, video game design, and user interface... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/no-web-without-women-mgrulvzr0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: No Web Without Women | daily.dev og:description: Learn about the pioneering women in tech who made significant contributions to computer programming, network technology, video game design, and user interface... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/no-web-without-women-mgrulvzr0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mGruLVZr0.png og:image:alt: No Web Without Women og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # No Web Without Women **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 9 min read · 120 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Learn about the pioneering women in tech who made significant contributions to computer programming, network technology, video game design, and user interface design. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ernest437** · 13 upvotes > Ada Lovelace is visionary of her era, the algorithm she wrote is inspiring the modern how we do programming. > But I disagree if she exaggerated as "has been regarded by many as an early prophet of the internet age." > > Web comes along way and it should not be divided just by saying "without women" or "without man". > > The internet development involved many brilliant minds, and attributing it to a single person, regardless of gender, doesn't do justice to the collaborative effort. > > By focusing solely on gender in this way, the website misses the opportunity to celebrate the diverse contributions... **@ghost** · 8 upvotes > the comments proving that this is much needed (edit: thanks for the quick moderation 🙏) **@andrerm** · 3 upvotes > I just had a look at the website and I have to say to all the guys in the comments complaining about this post: Stop, re frame, take it with an open mind. The website is not exaggerating anything, it's highlighting contributions. To this day I'm still surprised by the crazy number of contributions that were miss attributed because the researchers were women. > > And to anyone saying daily dev is not a place for politics, I'm sorry to break it to you but there is a LOT of politics in software. It just doesn't always talk about gender. > If you rather go tunnel vision in the technical aspects of... **@msamgan** · 0 upvotes > This is such a good thing, one of the best thing i saw today. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#networking](https://daily.dev/tags/networking), [#women-in-tech](https://daily.dev/tags/women-in-tech) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/no-web-without-women-mgrulvzr0) ```json 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The website is not exaggerating anything, it’s highlighting contributions. To this day I’m still surprised by the crazy number of contributions that were miss attributed because the researchers were women.\nAnd to anyone saying daily dev is not a place for politics, I’m sorry to break it to you but there is a LOT of politics in software. It just doesn’t always talk about gender.\nIf you rather go tunnel vision in the technical aspects of software engineering and not deal with anything else that’s your choice. Don’t expect every community to adhere to your filter though. You’re still free to complain, of course.\nAh, I think you can block tags in here, so feel free to do that.","datePublished":"2024-05-10T18:49:31.405Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mGruLVZr0#c-z4UhXEvk1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"André Rodrigues Melo","url":"https://daily.dev/andrerm","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--kJpinZpO--/f_auto,q_auto/v1/avatars/avatar_pSXah3qrB"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"This is such a good thing, one of the best thing i saw today.","datePublished":"2024-05-13T15:32:52.824Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mGruLVZr0#c-IfNfmh1cv","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Mohammed Samgan Khan","url":"https://daily.dev/msamgan","image":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/29948727?v=4"}}]} ```