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Auteur(s) : Rankin, Joy Lisi (1976-....)
Titre(s) : A people's history of computing in the United States [Texte imprimé] / Joy Lisi Rankin
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (325 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
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 forgotten
time when students taught computers, rather than the other way around, and visionaries
dreamed of networked access for all. The invention of the personal computer undoubtedly
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. Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how
users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed
computer games, including The Oregon Trail. No less than the male inventors, garage
hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto, these unsung pioneers helped shape
our digital world. 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 national and international debates over
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.
Sujet(s) : Systèmes informatiques -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Réseaux d'ordinateurs -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Carrefours de l'information et de l'apprentissage -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
004.097 3 (23e éd.) = Informatique - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674970977. - ISBN 0674970977 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46562811r
Notice n° :
FRBNF46562811
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.