While I did not participate in the discussion on Monday, it seems that there was a significant focus on the identities being represented and not represented in the field of computing. I am particularly interested in Haas’ reading on the Wampum Peoples use of hypermedia prior to the use of the internet.  Charles claims that it might not be plausible to suggest that the development of Hypertext and HTML were inspired by the Wampum but my own analysis of this differs significantly. Rather, I am asking myself why the conversation between the Wampum and the HTML developers are a separate entity. Computer science is, by nature, suppose to be a very collaborative medium but often the cross-cultural connections it posses becomes invisible. What then happens to our understanding of computing if we are able to hold both the advancements of the Wampum and the HTML developers together in the same collective narrative.

This pushes into a larger discussion of how computers consistently evolve without other communities in mind. Perhaps our biggest challenge in the modern computational world right now revolves around making more people computer literate but too often in a language, and system that is constantly inaccessible to those not at the crux of its development.