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Joy Lisi Rankin: A People's History of Computing in the United States (2018) 4 stars

Does Silicon Valley deserve the credit it gets for digital creativity and social media? Joy …

Early personal computing as creating community, not consumers

4 stars

The history of “time-share” computing networks in several educational institutions in the 60s and seventies. Really explores how these systems created computing “citizens” by empowering users and emphasizing the community aspects of the systems.