A people's history of computing in the United States /

Does Silicon Valley deserve the credit it gets for digital creativity and social media? Joy Lisi Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC world where schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration. A People's Hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rankin, Joy Lisi, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
University of South Alabama
1900-1999
Computer systems > United States > History > 20th century.
Computer networks > United States > History > 20th century.
Information commons > United States > History > 20th century.
Systèmes informatiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Réseaux d'ordinateurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Carrefours de l'information et de l'apprentissage > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
54.01 history of computer science.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
COMPUTERS > History.
Computer networks
Computer systems
Information commons
Informatik
Personal Computer
Rechnernetz
Computer
Datennetz
Datenverarbeitungssystem
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: People computing (not the Silicon Valley mythology)
  • When students taught the computer
  • Making a macho computing culture
  • Back to BASICS
  • The promise of computing utilities and the proliferation of networks
  • How the Oregon Trail began in Minnesota
  • Plato builds a plasma screen
  • Plato's Republic (or, the other arpanet)
  • Epilogue: From personal computing to personal computers.

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