A People’s History of Computing in the United States / / Joy Lisi Rankin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Rankin, Joy Lisi,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674988538; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674988538
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joy Lisi Rankin.

Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration—when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.