Where Crochet Meets Code: Fiber Arts and the History of Computing with Abbey Perini
What do Viking needlework, the Apollo guidance computer, and a $7 Etsy crochet pattern have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode of the MonkCast, Kate Holterhoff talks with Abbey Perini, web developer at Hygiena, technical writer, and prolific crafter, about the tangled history of fiber arts and programming. Abbey walks through a condensed version of her CodeMash talk, from the earliest knitted scraps around 6500 BCE to the women who wove core rope memory for NASA and got written off as "little old lady" needleworkers. Along the way she makes the case that the Jacquard loom gets…
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