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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello from central Illinois (USA),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This recent, short account of Colleen Bushell’s involvement with Mosaic in the early 1990s is partly public relations, but also features Ms. Bushell’s contributions to the web browser, Mosaic.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://storied.illinois.edu/center-of-the-universe/">https://storied.illinois.edu/center-of-the-universe/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I interviewed Ms. Bushell when I wrote my
<a href="https://www.technologystories.org/hierarchies-in-the-circuitry-women-information-technology-and-scholarship-wits-at-illinois/">
short piece on WITS</a> (Women, Information Technology and Scholarship) back in 2013. Link rot means that the video we made isn’t properly listed, but, for old times sake, the video can be found here:
<a href="https://vimeo.com/83869313">https://vimeo.com/83869313</a> and the transcript is here:
<a href="https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/91518">https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/91518</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sharon Irish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Research Affiliate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">School of Information Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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