May 2010
Beginner
520 pages
15h 13m
English
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Chapter 8 Benway’s message and other electronic missives on the system were found in Community Memory’s extensive scrap-books kept on the project.
Chapter 8 Felsenstein’s quote from his four-page “Biographical Background Information,” dated Jan. 29, 1983.
Chapter 8 Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100 (New York: Signet, 1954).
Chapter 8 A first-person account of Albrecht’s activities in the early 1960s is found in "A Modern-Day Medicine Show,” Datamation, July 1963.
Chapter 8 “. . . the possibility of millions . . .” See John Kemeny, Man and the Computer (New York: Scribners, 1972), quoted in Robert A. Kahn, “Creative Play with the Computer: A Course for Children,” unpublished paper written for the Lawrence Hall of Science. Berkeley, California.
Chapter 8 “. . . dymaxion . . .” See Hugh Kenner, Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller (New York: Morrow, 1973).
Chapter 8 Back issues of PCC, generously provided by Bob Albrecht, were particularly helpful for information about early seventies Bay Area hacking.
Chapter 8 Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines (self-published, distributed by The Distributors, South Bend, Ind., 1974).
Chapter 8 Brautigan’s poem is in The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (New York: Dell, Laurel, 1973). Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 8 “. . . a manipulator . . .” William Burroughs in Naked Lunch (New York: Grove Press. 1959).
Chapter 9 Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1973).
Chapter 9 “. . .in honor of the ...
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