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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Resources in Education
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Author: Joy Lisi Rankin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988515
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism. The invention of the personal computer 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. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto. 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 the concept of 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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988515
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism. The invention of the personal computer 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. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto. 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 the concept of 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.
Research in Education
Publications of the State of Illinois
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publications of the State of Illinois
Author: Illinois. Office of Secretary of State
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Advances in Computers
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Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080566502
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Advances in Computers
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080566502
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Advances in Computers
Faculty Publications and Doctoral Dissertations
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Government Reports Annual Index
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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Title Index, ERIC ED Accessions File
Author: ERIC Processing and Reference Facility
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Curriculum Construction
Author: Werrett Wallace Charters
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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