Started A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin 📚
Tracking progress and chapter updates in Hardcover as a test this month: https://hardcover.app/books/a-peoples-history-of-computing-in-the-united-states/journals/@chadkoh@indieweb.social?referrer_id=63672
@chadkoh I read this a few years ago. Looking forward to discussing some day
@neilk absolutely. And let me know if you have recommended follow ups, whether counter arguments or complementary works.
@chadkoh I don’t recall any questionable arguments per se, other than the title wildly oversells the book. Still very interesting but it’s just about Dartmouth BASIC
The author uses ephemera to explore what was a thriving culture of democratic amateur programming on timesharing mainframes, spreading even beyond the university
(As for complementary works you’re reminding me I wanted to read more about John Kemeny’s philosophy & it seems he wrote a book. Queued! https://archive.org/details/mancomputerbyjoh0000john/page/n6/mode/1up)
