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Rosie (X) Cross
British Internet publisher, Rosie Cross, living in Newtown Australia which is a suburb of Sydney who can be also known as Rosie X - is the founder of Geek_girl, which is an extremely popular Australian magazine and website that began in 1995. Rosie is know to be a famous computer geek. She is also a very outspoken on Twitter (@rosiex), where she gives her strong opinions about cyber-feminism.

Background
In her early life she was radio producer only doing free-lance and also a writer. She mainly wrote about the Internet culture and how it was shifting. She did programs about the same topic that were broadcasted on ABC, which at the time was a big deal and something new to the world. Rosie then went on to something bigger and created the first ever cyber-feminist e-zine (Geekgirl), which made history. She starred in interviews on a couple of Melbourne's top magazines, such as 21-C and Wired. Rosie was the one to put the idea out there that women now had technology tools to achieve new possibilities that they could not achieve beforehand. She also believed the opportunities for women were greater. To her, World Wide Web was a start of a new beginning for women. By having a website about Geekgirl she was able to put her three interests into play - print, radio, and video.

Achievements
Rosie Cross got a Bachelor Degree of Communications (arts degree - journalism) from Mitchell College of Advanced Education, Bathurst in 1986. She has been recognized numerous times for achievements she's made. From 1993-2015 (geekgirl.com.au) has been recognized as Australia's longest and continuously running online publication. She has even won the Intel Achievement Award for Excellence in 2002. There has been exhibitions about her work, as well. A couple being: "Eternity" launched in 2001 at the New National Museum of Australia and it was put into place to show everybody that Geekgirl was 1 or 101 extraordinary Australians and The Andy Warhol Museum Pennsylvania told her that if Andy Warhol were alive, he would enjoy what she has done so they archived many issues of Geekgirl and continue to show interest in her website.