Interesting. Quoting a review http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/early-computings-long-strange-trip http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/e

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."