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- Title
From the Mainframes to the Masses: A Participatory Computing Movement in Minnesota Education.
- Authors
Rankin, Joy
- Abstract
Historians have demonstrated how systems like Usenet and Minitel fostered the social practices that we now associate with the TCP/IP Internet, but no one has considered networked computing in education. From 1965 to 1975, Minnesota implemented interactive computing at its public schools and universities with time-sharing systems--networks of teletypewriter terminals connected to computers via telephone lines. These educational networks, created with different priorities from military-sponsored networks, were user oriented from die start and encouraged software sharing and collaboration. Focusing on die educational setting gives us a history of the Internet firmly grounded in the social and political movements of the long 1960s.
- Subjects
USENET (Computer network); TCP/IP; COMPUTERS in education; HISTORY of the Internet; EDUCATIONAL technology
- Publication
Information & Culture, 2015, Vol 50, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
2164-8034
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/IC50204