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Books of Computer History and Folklore
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Peter Flass
2020-10-21 20:30:52 UTC
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I’ve added a couple of recently-mentioned titles and done a bit of cleanup
to the list of books, although it’s not completely formatted yet. You can
find it at: http://teampli.net/ComputerBooklist.html

If anyone has corrections of comments, you can either post here or write
Peter [at] Iron-Spring [dot] com

I tried to include all titles and many comments, but I may well have missed
some.
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Pete
A.T. Murray
2020-10-22 00:21:01 UTC
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Post by Peter Flass
I’ve added a couple of recently-mentioned titles and done a bit of cleanup
to the list of books, although it’s not completely formatted yet. You can
find it at: http://teampli.net/ComputerBooklist.html
If anyone has corrections of comments, you can either post here or write
Peter [at] Iron-Spring [dot] com
I tried to include all titles and many comments, but I may well have missed
some.
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Pete
Hauben, Michael, and Hauben, Ronda, "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet."
Paperback January 1, 1997 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CMYB2KS
codescott
2020-10-24 08:24:10 UTC
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Post by Peter Flass
I’ve added a couple of recently-mentioned titles and done a bit of cleanup
to the list of books, although it’s not completely formatted yet. You can
find it at: http://teampli.net/ComputerBooklist.html
If anyone has corrections of comments, you can either post here or write
Peter [at] Iron-Spring [dot] com
I tried to include all titles and many comments, but I may well have missed
some.
_The Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age_, by Karla Jennings

This is definitely folklore and provides little if any evidence that the
stories related here have any reality. Still, I thought it was an
interesting book...
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Charles Richmond (codescott)
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David Paul
2020-10-29 00:32:45 UTC
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:30:52 -0700, Peter Flass
I’ve added a couple of recently-mentioned titles and done a bit of cleanup
to the list of books, although it’s not completely formatted yet. You can
find it at: http://teampli.net/ComputerBooklist.html
If anyone has corrections of comments, you can either post here or write
Peter [at] Iron-Spring [dot] com
I tried to include all titles and many comments, but I may well have missed
some.
The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online
Community (Hafner, 2001)

The very first online community, they state!
Questor
2020-11-02 05:22:39 UTC
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Post by David Paul
The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online
Community (Hafner, 2001)
The very first online community, they state!
At the very least, a claim that requires some qualification.
Marco Scholz
2021-01-05 08:41:24 UTC
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Marco Scholz
2021-01-05 12:46:58 UTC
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Sherry Turkle "The Second Self, Computers and the Human Spirit", 1984
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