POV: your job title is COMPUTER #history

1943: your job title is computer. The Army builds a thirty-ton machine to do your job, has you teach it without letting you see it, then cuts you out of the photo. Sources - The women computers and the ENIAC programmers (the grades, the titles, the 1946 photos and ad, the 1948 booklet): https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs1951i/lightWhenComputersWereWomen.pdf - ENIAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC ; https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/75th-anniversary-of-the-electronic-numerical-integrator-and-computer-eniac - Forty hours a trajectory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli ; https://zuse-z1.zib.de/simulations/eniac/history.html - Learning it from diagrams, not cleared to see it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik - The dinner: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/eniacs-anniversary-nod-its-female-computers - The unveiling: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/1995-on-this-day-in-1946-eniac-unveiled.html - Why the machine is called a computer: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2561813/q-a--a-lost-interview-with-eniac-co-inventor-j--presper-eckert.html - "Computer" as a job title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation) ; https://www.nasa.gov/history/langleys-computers-1935-1970/ - Programming becomes a man's job: https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/nensmeng/files/Ensmenger2010-MPM.pdf - AI and job cuts in 2026: https://www.challengergray.com/blog/job-cuts-fall-in-september-hiring-plans-up-3-over-2025-on-weak-early-seasonal-hiring/ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): "Hot Swing", "Spy Glass", "Vivacity", "Night on the Docks - Sax", "Americana", "Local Forecast - Elevator". Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl) and Freesound contributors (CC0).