A people's history of computing in the United States / Joy Lisi Rankin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rankin, Joy Lisi, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer systems--United States--History--20th century.

Computer systems.

Computer networks--United States--History--20th century.

Computer networks.

Information commons--United States--History--20th century.

Information commons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674988514

0674988515

9780674988538

0674988531

OCLC:

1056952259