stackyFACTSDecades before the pandemic made working from your couch a global norm, Mary Allen Wilkes was doing it in 1965 with a computer the size of a refrigerator.
Decades before the pandemic made working from your couch a global norm, Mary Allen Wilkes was doing it in 1965 with a computer the size of a refrigerator. While working on the LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer), she demanded to work from her parents' house in Baltimore. To accommodate this, MIT literally shipped the massive prototype to her living room, making Wilkes the very first person in history to have a personal home computer—all so she could avoid a miserable commute.
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