![]() “There is a different energy on set when it is all women,” says Geva. They self-funded the first two episodes, then crowdfunded the rest. That is really something we wanted to bring to light.” “Most women we talked to had zero guilt or shame and if they did, it was because other people made them feel that way,” says Katch. One of the usual narratives is that a woman who chooses an abortion must feel immense trauma, guilt and shame, but it was important to Katch and Geva to bust this trope. “When it comes to destigmatisation of anything, comedy and storytelling have been at the forefront,” says Katch. It was important to show the range of experiences and reasons why some women decide to terminate a pregnancy, and to normalise it. There is the middle-aged mother of teenagers and the woman who has a one-night stand, the twentysomething whose contraception failed and the teenage girl who has a great relationship with her dad. ![]() Through social media, they found women all over the US to interview about their abortion experiences, and fictionalised versions make up the first season of Ctrl Alt Delete. ![]() After the procedure I was so relieved – and there were no stories of people like me anywhere.” “That doesn’t mean the process was easy, but the decision was very clear to me right away. “The only stories I could find were young women who were in this difficult decision, and ended up having the baby.” Katch says it wasn’t a difficult decision to choose an abortion. “I felt really alone when I found out I was pregnant,” says Katch. They had both terminated pregnancies years earlier. Ctrl Alt Delete co-creators Roni Geva and Margaret Katch. But we people of Internet bloggery love nostalgia, and CTRL-Alt-Delete, thanks to Bill Gates, is chock full of '90s related memories.‘Most women we’ve talked to had zero guilt or shame about their abortions’. ![]() Sure, it's remembered in conjunction with the most annoying PC glitches. Gates, however, forced it into the front and center of our consciousness with the log-in requirement.Īnd because of that fame - or rather infamy - it's a key combination we laypeople still remember today. Bradley came up with the combination to hasten the reboot process, in case of things like the blue screen of death. But, it was that kind of institutionalization that " made it famous," to borrow the words of its inventor, former IBM engineer David Bradley. Unlike a Mac, which after booting up requires a user to log-in, PC's require CTRL-Alt-Delete first, an admittedly clunky step. To be clear, Gates is referring to CTRL-Alt-Delete for logging into Windows, not the command for restarting after the blue screen of death (pictured at right). "It was a mistake," he said, an admission that has tech bloggers cheering. "We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't wanna give us our single button," he said in an interview for a Harvard fundraising campaign. īill Gates " finally" caved to pressure and admitted that CTRL-Alt-Delete was a "mistake," which seems a little harsh for a three-key combination used by frustrated PC users for decades. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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