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• bemused 12y ago
  second that, this gives very interesting insight about the mixture of 60s counterculture, then still legal psychotherapeutic and/or recreational experiments with psychoactive substances and the beginnings of "personal" computing reading this helped a lot realizing the innovation and impact "The Mother of All Demos" really brought and getting a understanding about the environment in which this was envisioned and implemented http://www.wired.com/2013/12/tech-time-warp-engelbart/ http://www.wired.com/2013/12/tech-time-warp-engelbart/
• akavel 12y ago
  Interesting. Quoting a review http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/early-computings-long-strange-trip http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/early-computi...: "Markoff's book covers the years 1960 to 1975 and the area south of San Francisco around Stanford University that would later come to be known as Silicon Valley. I arrived in Palo Alto in 1980, after the period described in the book, but got to know most of the people Markoff depicts. I can report that if anything, he underplays the degree to which they behaved in ways that would today be considered outrageous and radical, and what I saw was said to have been mild compared with what had come before. [...] And yes, there were drugs and naked people in the rooms where some of the code that now drives your e-mail around the globe was first set down."