Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs … the mythos of Silicon Valley is saturated with men, the vast majority of them white. This week, WIRED Classics asks who are the unsung heroes of the computer revolution?
worked for a research group at Stanford that was credited with developing the Internet. Its leader was. As a grad student, Estrin contributed to the networking protocols that form the basic architecture of the Internet.
Above all else, Estrin understood networking systems. Her first entrepreneurial endeavor was Bridge Communications, a company she cofounded with her then-husband and a few other folks in 1981. The company went public in 1985 and sold to 3Com two years later for more than $200 million. Two years later, Estrin left Cisco to return to start-up life. She went on to launch five more startups, and in 2008, she
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