Purely History on Instagram: "In the 1960s, women played a crucial role in the Apollo missions. The onboard guidance computers that helped land astronauts on the Moon used programs stored on woven memory known as core rope memory. Women, often called “little old ladies” in reports of the time, hand-wove wires through magnetic cores to physically encode the software. If a wire passed through a core, it represented a 1, and if it bypassed, it represented a 0. This painstaking work ensured flawless

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Jack on Instagram: "The 1960 presidential election was an intense battle of personalities. John F. Kennedy and his fiercest rival for the Democratic nomination, Lyndon B. Johnson, hab a notoriously tense relationship. On the campaign trail, the two men constantly traded insults. In the video, we see Kennedy accusing Johnson of calling him a liar and an ignoramus—even though Johnson had actually called him „rash, reckless, naive, and uninformed.“ But in a surprising move