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The dream machine, and Steven Levy’s other books (Crypto and Facebook) are also really good. Code by Charles Petzold is mostly not about history, but it uses a
by gonehome 4y ago
The dream machine, and Steven Levy’s other books (Crypto and Facebook) are also really good.
Code by Charles Petzold is mostly not about history, but it uses a lot of computing history as part of the way it teaches.
Microserfs is fiction but captures what it feels like to work in the Bay Area imo.
- mitchbob 4y agoI'm reading The Dream Machine now (just got to the part about PARC), and I agree, it's very good, especially in its descriptions of the social and cultural aspects of the innovations that led to personal computing. The recent Stripe Press reissue [1] includes some of J.C.R. Licklider's writings at the end, a nice bonus. [1] https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine
- martyvis 4y agoCrypto is a great read. Seeing cryptography progress from something that only spooks care about to technology vital for the commercial internet is covered really well and you also get to learn a little about the characters involved.