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World Service,22 Feb 2020,9 mins

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World Wise Web

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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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