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100	1		_aRankin, Joy Lisi _d1976-
245	1	2	_aA people's history of computing in the United States / _cJoy Lisi Rankin.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2018.
300			_a325 Pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 294-310) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aDoes 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 History of Computing in the United States reveals a forgotten time when students taught computers, rather than the other way around, and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all. The invention of the personal computer undoubtedly liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games, including The Oregon Trail. No less than the male inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto, these unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world. By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today's debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for national and international debates over net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers.-- _cProvided by publisher
650		0	_aComputer systems _zUnited States _xHistory
650		4	_aSistemas informáticos _zEstados Unidos _xHistoria _ySiglo 20 _929822
650		0	_aComputer networks _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aRedes de computadoras _zEstados Unidos _xHistoria _ySiglo 20 _929824
650		0	_aInformation commons _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
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