![]() ![]() “Obviously inspired by Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Joy Lisi Rankin’s book positions itself as a corrective to what she calls ‘Silicon Valley mythology.’ ” -Marta Figlerowicz, Public Books “Provides enough evidence to bury the Silicon Valley Myth… Rankin’s study is a major revision of our understanding of the history of computing as well as our assumptions about the relationship between the general public and technological development. ![]() ![]() ” -Hannah Zeavin, The Los Angeles Review of Books In doing so, Rankin restores a crucial forgotten 10-year period between mainframe and personal computing, chronicling a history of networked belonging and user culture well before Jobs and the Woz rolled out Apple I… Rankin’s book is interested in how students and their teachers worked at the margins to elaborate varying notions of computer citizenship… She deepens the account of computing in all its problems. “Compellingly recasts people’s computing as one of networked belonging, intimacy, and coterie. ![]() “A powerful and densely detailed account of how digital culture in the 1960s and ’70s shaped our contemporary experiences of technology as a tool for social connection… As Rankin’s analysis shows, racism and misogyny played a part in molding digital culture from its inception. ![]()
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