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What the Dormouse Said

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396: 391: 27: 360:(the title is taken from the lyrics of the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit") tells the story of the important period when the personal computer and the Internet as we know them came into being. He also describes how a new culture of drugs, sex and rock and roll was created at the same time as the computers, sometimes in the same rooms, by some of the same people. 449: 300: 515: 156: 264: 198:". Markoff describes many of the people and organizations who helped develop the ideology and technology of the computer as we know it today, including 433: 343: 486: 229:) and the development of the computer industry. The book also discusses the early split between the idea of commercial and free-supply computing. 250: 93: 520: 510: 505: 426: 530: 479: 270: 115: 535: 525: 217:
Markoff argues for a direct connection between the counterculture of the late 1950s and 1960s (using examples such as
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The main part of the title, "What the Dormouse Said," is a reference to a line at the end of the 1967
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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The book follows the history chronologically, beginning with
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This article about a computer book or series of books is a
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said: feed your head." which is itself a reference to
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Index


John Markoff
Viking Press
ISBN
0-670-03382-0
OCLC
57068812
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
2005
non-fiction
John Markoff
history of the personal computer
collaboration
World War II
defense research community
cooperatives
psychedelics
counterculture of the 1960s
Vannevar Bush
memex
As We May Think
Doug Engelbart
Xerox PARC
Apple Computer
Microsoft Windows
Kepler's Books
Menlo Park
California
Jefferson Airplane

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