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So you haven't read it either? Let's argue about a book neither of us have read. Hippies didn't "shape" the Internet, either. Rather, there was a general idea

So you haven't read it either? Let's argue about a book neither of us have read. Hippies didn't "shape" the Internet, either. Rather, there was a general idea of openness which almost everyone shared, to some degree -- even the faculty and grad students and researchers who actually did build it. The telephone company people and the IBM'ers did not share it, and that's why their vision did not win out.

labrador 4y ago
Of course I read it. What makes you think I have it. I'm pretty sure the problem we are having is that we have different definitions of 'hippie'
- AlbertCory 4y ago
  > What makes you think I have it I assume that's "haven't" ? For sure. "Hippie" to me is not broadly defined. Hippies rejected society and regular jobs (and education). There were hippie posers and used-to-be's, who might have been the users on The Well.