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Mary Ann Horton
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Mary Ann Horton (born Mark R. Horton, November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and led the growth of Usenet in the 1980s.
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“I was still closeted. It took quite a while because you didn’t dare come out back then. It would have been social suicide, job suicide.”
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