Internet networks
Audrey, an aspiring teenage developer from the Philippines, talks to Radia Perlman, whose work in network routing earned her the nickname "the mother of the internet".
Computer programmer Radia Perlman is often called "the mother of the internet". In the late 1970s, she started working in network routing – the way data is moved from one network to another – and made a huge contribution to the internet as we know it today. Seventeen-year-old Audrey from the Philippines, who is a budding developer herself, asks Radia about what it has been like working in a male-dominated field, and what she makes of the way we use the internet today.
Credit: Algoryhme by Radia Perlman
Producer: Tamsin Barber.
World Wise Web is a co-production between BBC World Service and BBC Rewind.
Music composed by Nick Thorburn
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