@Runkefer @bosak @harrymccracken 🧵Computer Lib

Yes - Microsoft Press reprinted it ‘trade paperback’ style in 1987.

The ‘New Media Reader’ published a great Computer Lib review and sample:

“Computer Lib / Dream Machines is the most important book in the history of new media.
Nelson’s volume is often called the first personal computer book… This, however, was only one of the many visions, prescient and influential,
offered in the volume.”

#TedNelson #ComputerLib

http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf

@bosak @harrymccracken 🧵Computer Lib

You can still buy a republished 2013 reprint of the original edition directly from Ted for $111 (original text, TN graphics, flip book tabloids layout). It’s great.

But ‘quantities are limited’ and I don’t know if he still has copies. So step right up!

#TedNelson #ComputerLib

https://computerlibbook.com/products/computer-lib-dream-machines

Sewing old timey tunics with a modern twist and reading up on the hobbyist canon. This gal is all about the retro baby. Talk 8bit to me 🥰

#retrocomputing #retro #computerlib #sewing #renassaince #arts_and_crafts #diy #empowered #trans #woman #prague

Where I share a bit more details: https://oct.zoy.org/posts/2024-09-04-computer-lib/ #blog #archive #ComputerLib

#ComputerLib Ted Nelson (1974)

#tednelson #computerlib 1975

Oh, someone has finally uploaded a (possibly legal?) copy of Computer Lib/Dream Machines to archive:

https://archive.org/details/computer-lib-dream-machines/

Unredacted 1st ed, including some very… Ted Nelson is a white male born in the 1930s, his language is, uh… not acceptable sometimes.

Also, cover price $7 in 1974 is $37.61 in 2021, not $120, Ted.
#computerlib #xanadu

I need to print myself a copy of #computerlib and actually read the whole thing.

Dynamicland: a collaborative programming environment inside a whole building that you modify by doodling on paper https://boingboing.net/2017/12/20/computing-for-everyone.html #augmentedreality #happymutants #computerlib #education #Oakland #Post #ides