Dark screens used to be a necessity, now they’re a sleek display option. What happened in between?

Noton works by drawing cables between timers, logic gates and instruments inspired from pepepépepe's Color Computers to explore binary logic.

Right-click to add nodes, and left-click to add wires. Nodes will emit a positive signal if all the connected wires have the same polarity. The screen has timers to the left, and notes to the right. The default timers are 6 trackers, 4 sequencers and 2 pools.

Forget is a service that automatically deletes your old posts once everyone has forgotten about them. After all, why shouldn't computers forget too?

Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way.

A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. But in 1984, something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising.

What happened?

We spent the past few weeks trying to answer this question, and there's no clear, single answer.

But here's a good starting place: The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.

These early personal computers weren't much more than toys. You could play pong or simple shooting games, maybe do some word processing. And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.

Liste des bons et mauvais constructeurs d'ordinateur personnel (ordinateur fixe, portable, ultra-portable, netbook, PC, Mac, etc.) en ce qui concerne l'optionnalité du système d'exploitation et des autres logiciels pré-installés, ou à défaut, pour les conditions de versement d'une indemnité forfaitaire (si le montant n'est pas connu au moment de l'achat) ou de leur remboursement (dans les cas, rares aujourd'hui, où le montant est connu à l'avance). Destinant nos analyses au grand public, nous avons choisi de ne pas répertorier les sociétés qui vendent uniquement des ordinateurs fixes.