11 Facts About Jude Milhon

Judith Jude Milhon was born March 12,1939, in Washington, DC, raised in Indiana, to a military family of the Marine Corps.

Jude Milhon married Robert Behling in 1961 and had one daughter, Tresca Behling, with him.

Jude Milhon taught herself programming in 1967 and landed her first job at the Horn and Hardart vending machine company of New York before she moved away to California to join the counterculture movement.

Jude Milhon worked at the Berkeley Computer Company, and she helped implement the communications controller of the BCC timesharing system.

In 1973, a subset of the Resource One group, including Jude Milhon, broke away to create Community Memory in Berkeley.

Jude Milhon was a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and the author of several books.

Jude Milhon was a senior editor at the magazine Mondo 2000 and frequent contributor to Boing Boing.

Jude Milhon was active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement helping to organize the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Jude Milhon frequently urged women toward the internet and hacking while encouraging them to have "tough skin" in the face of harassment.

Jude Milhon did so by writing open-ended questions in the system about available resources in the region, which would get curious users to try out the system.

Jude Milhon wrote "The Cyberpunk Handbook" and coined the term "cypherpunk" for computer users dedicated to online privacy through encryption.