Lynn Conway's Website Web Scrape
Title
Lynn Conway's Website Web Scrape
Date
Completed 07-30-2025
Format
.7z archive or WARC (warc.gz, proccessed using warcit)
Language
American English
Local URL
https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/
Year Founded (approximate)
2000
Last Year Active (approximate)
2024
Exterior References
This scrape of https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/ was completed 7-30-2025 using HTTrack. It includes copies of all pages and files currently available on the University of Michigan servers. While the page has been archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, this scrape is intended to independently preserve the site, as well as to provide the site as a possible corpus for textual analysis.
Due to the file size (960 MB, .7z archive or .warc.gz), the scrape is available by request - simply email admin AT queerdigital.com. To browse the mirrored site (.7z archive), open index.html in the top-level folder.
Checksum (SHA-256): 92ee27551fab512b7c8f6e3d4d3aa55511f371d93980b0f6f13802fa4739df0c
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Bio: Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was a computer scientist and transgender rights activist. Professionally, she is best known for her role in revolutionizing microship design. Early in her career, she was fired from IBM in 1968 when she revealed her intent to transition under the care of Dr. Harry Benjamin. Following transition, she worked at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) for many years before becoming a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. In 2000, Conway began to talk about her tranistion and earlier experiences through her website. The site grew to include a variety of informational resources on trans topics, a gallery of successful trans women and trans men, and records of her ongoing activism, including her campaign to challenge J. Michael Bailey's theory of "autogynephelia" and his associated 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen.
Included below are links to other information on Conway:
Due to the file size (960 MB, .7z archive or .warc.gz), the scrape is available by request - simply email admin AT queerdigital.com. To browse the mirrored site (.7z archive), open index.html in the top-level folder.
Checksum (SHA-256): 92ee27551fab512b7c8f6e3d4d3aa55511f371d93980b0f6f13802fa4739df0c
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Bio: Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was a computer scientist and transgender rights activist. Professionally, she is best known for her role in revolutionizing microship design. Early in her career, she was fired from IBM in 1968 when she revealed her intent to transition under the care of Dr. Harry Benjamin. Following transition, she worked at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) for many years before becoming a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. In 2000, Conway began to talk about her tranistion and earlier experiences through her website. The site grew to include a variety of informational resources on trans topics, a gallery of successful trans women and trans men, and records of her ongoing activism, including her campaign to challenge J. Michael Bailey's theory of "autogynephelia" and his associated 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen.
Included below are links to other information on Conway:
- Oral History with Lynn Conway, conducted with Evan Taylor (Feb 04, 2020)
- Interview with Lynn Conway, published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (April-June 2023)
- New York Times obituary (June 15, 2024)
Files
Citation
“Lynn Conway's Website Web Scrape,” Queer Digital History Project, accessed October 22, 2026, https://queerdigital.com/items/show/147.