A People's History of Computing in the United States /

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Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration-when users taught computers an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rankin, Joy Lisi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Computer networks > United States > History > 20th century.
Computer systems > United States > History > 20th century.
Information commons > United States > History > 20th century.
COMPUTERS / History.
ARPANET.
BASIC.
PC.
Silicon Valley.
computer history.
computers.
digital culture.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. People Computing (Not the Silicon Valley Mythology)
  • 1. When Students Taught the Computer
  • 2. Making a Macho Computing Culture
  • 3. Back to BASICs
  • 4. The Promise of Computing Utilities and the Proliferation of Networks
  • 5. How The Oregon Trail Began in Minnesota
  • 6. PLATO Builds a Plasma Screen
  • 7. PLATO's Republic (or, the Other ARPANET)
  • Epilogue. From Personal Computing to Personal Computers
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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