Definition: kilogirl

The computing capacity of one thousand women. Kilogirl was a tongue-in-cheek way of expressing the power of electronic computers as they emerged in the 1940s. Prior to that, computers were human beings, and they were, in fact, called "computers." Women far outnumbered men and were engaged day after day in tedious manual calculations such as developing mathematical tables. See kilobyte, kilohertz, kiloGoogle and colored computer.




Somebody Had to Do It