Comment by dannyobrien

I think the compromise position here is to concentrate on the 1980s, and acknowledge that there was a lot of networking tech going on in academia in the 1970s.

However, in context, what I was trying to convey was that the personal computing revolution took place outside of academia. Generally, that lineage started in the early 1970s, with the homebrew movement, and took off with the Apple II in the United States in 1977. This is also well-documented, but a different branch, and definitely more concerned with the idea of computers as providing autonomy.