Mary Ann Horton, formerly Mark R. Horton (born November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, and led the growth of Usenet in the 1980s.
Horton is a computer professional and a transgender educator and activist.
Read more about Mary Ann Horton: Education, UNIX and Internet Work, Diversity Work, Current Status
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“Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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