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2024-12-29 13:12 UTC
@Michaelcarducci@mastodon.social what's your favorite chunk of history to read about?
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@Michaelcarducci@mastodon.social 2024-12-29 20:31
@jessitron@hachyderm.io My gateway drug was "Fire in the Valley" chronicling the history of the PC. That led to reading about Douglas Englebart and Ted Nelson, which took me to Vannevar Bush's essay "As we may think" (1945) I really like all the history of technology as there are so many forgotten ideas that power our lives that we simply take for granted. I also enjoyed Kernighan's "UNIX: A history and a memoir" More broadly I like learning about the creativity that emerges from working under constraints.