Cracked: Trans computer scientist
 Lynn Conway is largely
 to thank for the device
 you're reading this on.
 Modern silicon chip design is mainly based
 on her ideas, and the textbook she
 co-wrote taught most of today's microchip
 designers. Plus, processors from the '90s
 onward were sped up with innovations she
 came up with in the '60s.
 And she achieved everything despite
 being fired by IBM in 1968, when she
 transitioned, and having to start her life
 over while hiding her past.
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This is what we mean when we say trans women invented the internet.