Internet Public
Created by pixouls@bookwyrm.social
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In a scant fifteen years, video and computer games have grown into a $6-billion-a-year global industry, sucking up ever-increasing amounts …
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Surfing on the Internet by J. C. Herz
In secret, underground, an amazing new world has taken shape, an alternate universe where technical communications sit alongside bulletin boards …
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The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the …
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Neuromancer by William Gibson (unspecified) (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)
4 stars
The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in …
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From counterculture to cyberculture by Fred Turner
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid …
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Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatalla, Joshua Quittner
The bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across …
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4 stars
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0-385-19195-2) is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published …
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$ git commit murder by Michael Warren Lucas (git commit murder, #1)
If Agatha Christie ran Unix cons
The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These …
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Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang
4 stars
Note about the author: The author is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns in English.
"A brilliant and empathetic guide to …
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Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu
Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why …
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Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
5 stars
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work
Neo-liberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty …
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Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
You make the web more inclusive for everyone, everywhere, when you design with accessibility in mind. Let Laura Kalbag guide …
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Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood
2 stars
The internet may be digital, but it carries a very physical cost. From image files to colors to coding languages …
