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Teenagers talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives

Teenagers from around the world talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives.

Teenagers from the around the world talk to the technology pioneers who have shaped their lives. Each episode is introduced by seventeen year old Anna Zanelli, a budding designer from London. Young people get the chance to ask leading innovators the questions they want answered. We find out about the inspiration behind some of the most important digital inventions, what their creators needed to do to make them a reality, and hear words of wisdom from brilliant minds.

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A teenager from the Philippines talks to "the mother of the internet"

Audrey, an aspiring teenage developer from the Philippines, talks to Radia Perlman, whose work in network routing earned her the nickname "the mother of the internet".

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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