Comment by WillAdams
3 days ago
Arguably, _The Jargon File_:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
and _Zen and the Art of the Internet_
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34
should be a part of the school curriculum covering the internet.
While specific to the Mac, one wishes:
https://folklore.org/0-index.html
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40492.Revolution_in_T...
was more widely read (and that it was updated with stories of turning OPENSTEP into Mac OS X), and if there is a similar site for Windows which collected stories such as:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Folklore.org starts off as an engaging and fascinating whistle-stop tour of a bunch of mad geniuses creating a personal computing revolution.
It ends up being a series of cautionary tales about Steve Jobs from a defeated and depressed Woz. Mostly about how he can't understand how someone can act so devoid of empathy.
Yeah, it was kind of saddening when watching a video interview which covers the later timeframe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585332
The saddest story of the lot though was about WozFest and the complete scumbag Bill Graham
https://folklore.org/US_Festival.html?sort=date
I wish the jargon file was still updated, it's such an interesting window into the compsci culture back then