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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2024-12-11 04:09:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that programming used to be considered as menial, unskilled work for underpaid women, and the term “computer” referred to those women who made punch card code to compute long and tedious mathematical calculations (or just did it by hand).