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Internet History

The machines, images and people that built computing and online culture — and how the captions got them wrong.

Grumpy Cat, a small cream-coloured cat with a permanently downturned mouth, photographed in March 2013

A Cat With an Underbite Won $710,001 in Federal Court

One photograph posted to Reddit in September 2012 turned a cat named Tardar Sauce into a trademark. Six years later, a jury in California awarded her owners $710,001 against a coffee company that went too far.

30 August 20264 min read

Two people setting switches and cables on the room-sized ENIAC computer

Internet History

Six Women Programmed the First Electronic Computer. The Captions Left Them Out.

In photographs of ENIAC, women are shown setting switches and plugging cables. For decades many of those pictures were published without their names.

20 August 20263 min read

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A Cat With an Underbite Won $710,001 in Federal Court

Six Women Programmed the First Electronic Computer. The Captions Left Them Out.

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