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I like this interview with Brian from the corecursive podcast. He explains how it was like for him working at Bells Labs https://corecursive.com/brian-kernighan

• adamgordonbell 5y ago
  Brian is great at painting a picture of what it was like in "The Unix Room" and it's interesting to think about working in a world where you and your colleagues are all sharing machine, adding things to bin for others to use, etc. And in fact, the only real rule there was, you changed it last, it’s yours. At one point, I had an idea for improving the text editor, ed at the time. And so I went in and added some things to ed, very small stuff, but in that sense. And I was just perfectly fine, but I guess technically at least for a brief period, I owned ed. That encouraged you to be somewhat careful. But I think that having everything on the same computer was contributed to a sense of community as well. And part of the community was the shared information, but the other part of it was simply knowing that other people were logged in at the same time.