Fool Fixes Internet

The Fool Freed the Internet
Posted By: •braskewitz
Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:04 am |

The Fool Freed the Internet

“We Owe It All to the Hippies,”

There is a constant battle to keep the Internet Free.

“In a 1995 special issue of Time magazine entitled “Welcome to
Cyberspace,” Stewart Brand wrote an article arguing that that the
personal computer revolution and the Internet had grown directly out
of the counterculture. “We Owe It All to the Hippies,” claimed the
headline. “Forget antiwar protests, Woodstock, even long hair. The
real legacy of the sixties generation is the computer revolution.”
According to Brand, and to popular legend then and since, Bay area
computer programmers had imbibed the countercultural ideals of
decentralization and personalization, along with a keen sense of
information’s transformative potential, and had built those into a
new kind of machine.”

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