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What’s the use of a computer if you can’t use it to get online? This question fascinates me as I began using computers in 1981, and full 18 years before I used the Internet for the first time, and I used them in various forms every day thereafter, from home computers like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum to Psion handheld PDAs (portable digital assistants), and my first PC, an Olivetti, that couldn’t have connected to the Internet if I’d have wanted it to.
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One of the technologies that make both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth possible is called “spread spectrum technology,” and it was invented in the 1940s by Hollywood starlet and leading lady Hedy Lamarr. She had starred in a host of blockbuster movies alongside Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, and others but was also a genius inventor. Working with the US Navy, she invented the technology to help prevent Axis powers from jamming Allied torpedoes during the Second World War. The technology is still used in our computers and smartphones today, and she remains my greatest tech hero. If you find it on streaming, I highly recommend watching Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Reframed Pictures, 2018).
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Halsey, M. (2022). Getting Online and Using the Internet. In: Windows 11 Made Easy. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8035-5_3
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