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Hacking Europe From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes /

Hacking Europe focuses on the playfulness that was at the heart of how European users appropriated microcomputers in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The essays argue that users--whether the design of the projected use of computers was detailed or still unfinished--assigned their own meani...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Alberts, Gerard (Editor ), Oldenziel, Ruth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:History of Computing,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: How European Players Captured the Computer and Created the Scenes
  • Part I: Appropriating America: Making One's Own
  • Transnational (Dis)connection in Localizing Personal Computing in the Netherlands, 1975-1990
  • "Inside a Day You'll be Talking to it Like an Old Friend": The Making and Remaking of Sinclair Personal Computing in 1980s Britain
  • Legal Pirates Ltd: Home Computing Cultures in Early 1980s Greece
  • Part II: Illegitimate Sons in Between: Scences
  • Galaxy and the New Wave: Yugoslav Computer Culture in the 1980s
  • Playing and Copying: Social Practices of Home Computer Users in Poland During the 1980s
  • Multiple Users, Diverse Users: Demoscene and the Appropriation of the Personal Computer by Demoscene Hackers
  • Part III: Going Public: How to Change the World
  • Heroes Yet Criminals of the German Computer Revolution
  • How Amsterdam Invented the Internet: European Networks of Significance 1980-1995
  • Users in the Dark: The Development of a User-Controlled Technology in the Czech Wireless Network Community.