Детальная информация

Название: A people's history of computing in the United States
Авторы: Rankin Joy Lisi
Коллекция: Электронные книги зарубежных издательств; Общая коллекция
Тематика: Computer systems — History; Computer networks — History; Information commons — History; Computer networks.; Computer systems.; Information commons.; COMPUTERS / Reference; COMPUTERS / History; EBSCO eBooks
Тип документа: Другой
Тип файла: PDF
Язык: Английский
Права доступа: Доступ по паролю из сети Интернет (чтение, печать, копирование)
Ключ записи: on1056952259

Разрешенные действия:

Действие 'Прочитать' будет доступно, если вы выполните вход в систему или будете работать с сайтом на компьютере в другой сети Действие 'Загрузить' будет доступно, если вы выполните вход в систему или будете работать с сайтом на компьютере в другой сети

Группа: Анонимные пользователи

Сеть: Интернет

Аннотация

Does Silicon Valley deserve the credit it gets for digital creativity and social media? Joy Lisi Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC world where schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration. A People's History of Computing in the United States reveals a forgotten time when students taught computers, rather than the other way around, and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all. The invention of the personal computer undoubtedly liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games, including The Oregon Trail. No less than the male inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto, these unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world. By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today's debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for national and international debates over net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers.--.

Права на использование объекта хранения

Место доступа Группа пользователей Действие
Локальная сеть ИБК СПбПУ Все Прочитать Печать Загрузить
Интернет Авторизованные пользователи СПбПУ Прочитать Печать Загрузить
-> Интернет Анонимные пользователи

Оглавление

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction: People Computing (Not the Silicon Valley Mythology)
  • 1. When Students Taught the Computer
  • 2. Making a Macho Computing Culture
  • 3. Back to BASICs
  • 4. The Promise of Computing Utilities and the Proliferation of Networks
  • 5. How The Oregon Trail Began in Minnesota
  • 6. PLATO Builds a Plasma Screen
  • 7. PLATO’s Republic (or, the Other ARPANET)
  • Epilogue: From Personal Computing to Personal Computers
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Статистика использования

stat Количество обращений: 0
За последние 30 дней: 0
Подробная статистика