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the whole earth catalog
Published August 30, 2009Views: 290
While browsing www.openculture.com this morning I came across this blurb on the Whole Earth Catalog. Some of you may remember this as the "google" of the early 70's. The catalog is now online if you follow the links in the article.
Between 1968 and 1972, Stewart Brand published The Whole Earth Catalog. For Kevin Kelly, the Catalog was essentially “a paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your life.” For Steve Jobs, it was a “Bible” of his generation, a kind of Google 35 years before Google came along. (On a side note, I highly recommend the commencement speech where Jobs made those comments.) The very good news is that The Whole Earth Catalog and some related publications are now available online. You can read them for free, or download them for a fee. Start delving into things here.
Complete article here:
http://www.openculture.com/2009/01/the_whole_earth_catalog_is_now_online.html
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