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What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, by John Markoff, 2005. Ref. ISBN 0-670-03382-0 John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is an American writer and journalist. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
“What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry” is a non-fiction history of the development of the personal computer. It closely ties the ideologies of the current computer industry to the counterculture in the 1960’s United States of America. The book follows the history of the computer industry chronologically, beginning with Vannevar Bush’s 1945 article “As We May Think,” where he describes his inspirational “memex” machine. Markoff details many of the people and organizations who helped develop the ideology and technology of the computer as we know it today, including Doug Engelbart, Xerox PARC, Apple and Microsoft Windows. Markoff describes how the political upheaval, pop music, drugs and technology of the 1960’s intermingled. Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. ...
The memex was a theoretical analog computer described by the scientist and engineer Vannevar Bush in the 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The word was a portmanteau of memory extender. Bush described the device as electronically linked to a library and able to display books and...
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Norwegian descent. ...
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Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...
The title is a reference to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland. It is also a reference to a song called White Rabbit from the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, probably the author's intended association. Use and abuse of LSD is one theme running through this book. The Hatter as depicted by Tenniel The Hatter, popularly known as The Mad Hatter (though he is never actually given that name in the book) is a fictional character encountered at a tea party and later as a witness at a trial in Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in...
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White Rabbit is a psychedelic rock song from Jefferson Airplanes 1967 hit album Surrealistic Pillow, also released as a single, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in that form. ...
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. ...
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ...
The book also discusses the early split between the idea of commercial and free-supply computing.
See also Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of German descent. ...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0385191952) is a book by Steven Levy about the hacker culture. ...
The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist club in Silicon Valley, which met (under that name) from March 1975 to roughly 1977. ...
John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is an American writer and journalist. ...
The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book, written by Tracy Kidder. ...
Microserfs is a novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 1995. ...
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ...
External links - On-Line Review
- Early Computing's Long, Strange Trip (review from American Scientist)
- Life Outside the Mainframe (review from Peacework)
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