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DdC · 11-12-2009, 03:14 PM

Now all you psycho Boosh fox newties get off the internet!

WE OWE IT ALL TO THE HIPPIES
Forget antiwar protests, Woodstock, even long hair.
The real legacy of the sixties generation is the computer revolution

Newcomers to the Internet are often startled to discover themselves not so much in some soulless colony of technocrats as in a kind of cultural Brigadoon - a flowering remnant of the '60s, when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution. At the time, it all seemed dangerously anarchic (and still does to many), but the counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal-computer revolution.

should we thank the hippies for the internet?

CONNECTIONS; A Crunchy-Granola Path From Macramé and LSD to Wikipedia and Google

Letter from LsD inventor Albert Hoffman to Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Apple's Jobs has said that Microsoft's Bill Gates, would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once."

Thank God for Hippies May 24, 2007

11-12-2009, 03:14 PM	#47 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,117 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 51 Thanked 607 Times in 399 Posts	Now all you psycho Boosh fox newties get off the internet! WE OWE IT ALL TO THE HIPPIES Forget antiwar protests, Woodstock, even long hair. The real legacy of the sixties generation is the computer revolution Newcomers to the Internet are often startled to discover themselves not so much in some soulless colony of technocrats as in a kind of cultural Brigadoon - a flowering remnant of the '60s, when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution. At the time, it all seemed dangerously anarchic (and still does to many), but the counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal-computer revolution. should we thank the hippies for the internet? CONNECTIONS; A Crunchy-Granola Path From Macramé and LSD to Wikipedia and Google Letter from LsD inventor Albert Hoffman to Apple CEO Steve Jobs Apple's Jobs has said that Microsoft's Bill Gates, would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." Thank God for Hippies May 24, 2007