A people's history of computing in the United States / Joy Lisi Rankin.
A people's history of computing in the United States / Joy Lisi Rankin.
A people's history of computing in the United States / Joy Lisi Rankin.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/5856
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English
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325 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
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 scr...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
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 History of Computing in the United States reveals a forgo...
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A people's history of computing in the United States / Joy Lisi Rankin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/5856
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74VKV8bopgOg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8bopgOg
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0674970977 hardcover
9780674970977 hardcover
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004.0973
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991024191613902626
