Name: A People's History of Computing in the United States
ISBN: 9780674970977

Joy Lisi Rankin

Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration--when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.

A People's History of Computing in the United States

Andrew Louis

The introduction tells us: 
This is not a history of great white men, or even a history of small teams of innovators

The author tells us that this will be the story of ordinary computer citizens and how they built a culture but I don't feel I actually got to read what the title and introduction promised I'd get. The bulk of the book turned out to be detailed descriptions of a few white men and their projects like the BASIC language and the PLATO network.

Jimmy Cerone

An alternate history to the Silicon Valley Mythology. A very interesting “what if” that details the history of time sharing, where people were users of computers instead of consumers.

A People's History of Computing in the United States

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