Pamela Hardt-English was the driving force behind Resource One — the first computerized bulletin board system that linked centers of counterculture across the Bay Area in the 1970s. She strived to provide people who didn’t consider themselves computer users (like social workers and hippies) with a resource network for anything they needed. Pam’s work was part of the earliest vanguard of personal computing, which anticipated the rise of the Internet decades later.

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You can find the full video interview, photos, transcripts, and more info about Pioneers here: notion.so/blog/topic/pioneers

Pamela: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Hardt-English