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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
What are your favorite books about the history and future of the internet (incl. Web3) and computing? I'm looking for some new ones. What I've read so far:
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
"The Dream Machine" - M. Mitchell Waldrop republished by Stripe press Stunningly well written. Covers J.C Licklider, history of his road to funding the initial internet, and as a result hoovers in all of damn near every key figure of that golden era of early compute.
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
As Alan Kay always says, the funders are as deserving (or more) for the incredible accomplishments of those early computer reserachers. You can't create great work without being in the right context...and those funders (amazingly as detailed in book) did just that. (context is worth 80 IQ points - Kay)
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miguelito
@mc
Came here to recommend this
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whit ☕️
@whit
Stripe Press looks like it has some other cool books on similar topics. Hadn’t heard of it before.
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