A people's history of computing in the United States

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rankin, Joy Lisi, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1900-1999
United States.
Computer systems > United States > History > 20th century.
Computer networks > United States > History > 20th century.
Information commons > United States > History > 20th century.
Computer networks.
Computer systems.
Information commons.
COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy
COMPUTERS / Computer Science
COMPUTERS / Data Processing
COMPUTERS / Hardware / General
COMPUTERS / Information Technology
COMPUTERS / Machine Theory
COMPUTERS / Reference
COMPUTERS / History
EBSCO eBooks
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of 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 screen
  • Plato's Republic (or, the other arpanet)
  • Epilogue: From personal computing to personal computers.

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