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Sender: au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben)
Subject: Re: CM> Origins of "virtual community" and J.C.R. Licklider, 1968.
Reply to message from lpress@ISI.EDU of Tue, 23 Jul
Good to see Larry's reference to the Liclider and Taylor article
describing "communities of common interest". The article is
appeared in 1968 before the ARPANET and sets out the vision
that the ARPANET helped make possible.
[~snip~]
Our online Netizens book has several chapters referring to Licklider
and describing the vision that set the basis for the ARPANET and
then the Internet.
See especially Chapter 5 "The Vision of Interactive Computing
and the Future"
and Chapter 6 Cybernetics, Time-sharing, Human-Computer Symbiosis
and Online Communities: Creating a Supercommunity of Online
Communities
The URL for the Netizens netbook is
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
>
>[Moderator's Note: J.C.R. Licklider may well be the most influential, and
>least publicly recognized, person in the history of computer science. He
>set ARPA on course towards constructing ARPANET and directed Project MAC at
>MIT; he also funded Engelbart's work on creating the mouse and windows. If
>anyone has recollections of Licklider, I think we would all be delighted
>to read them.]
I agree that Licklider is very important and we have tried to document
some of his contribution in our Netizens netbook. It would be
good to see some discussion of his contribution here on this list
as well as hear memories of him and his work.
Ronda
au329@cleveland.freeenet.edu
rh120@columbia.edu
--
Ronda Hauben "The Netizens: On the History and Impact of
au329@cleveland.freenet.edu Usenet and the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
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Subject: Re: CM> Origins of "virtual community" and J.C.R. Licklider, 1968.
Reply to message from lpress@ISI.EDU of Tue, 23 Jul
Good to see Larry's reference to the Liclider and Taylor article
describing "communities of common interest". The article is
appeared in 1968 before the ARPANET and sets out the vision
that the ARPANET helped make possible.
[~snip~]
Our online Netizens book has several chapters referring to Licklider
and describing the vision that set the basis for the ARPANET and
then the Internet.
See especially Chapter 5 "The Vision of Interactive Computing
and the Future"
and Chapter 6 Cybernetics, Time-sharing, Human-Computer Symbiosis
and Online Communities: Creating a Supercommunity of Online
Communities
The URL for the Netizens netbook is
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
>
>[Moderator's Note: J.C.R. Licklider may well be the most influential, and
>least publicly recognized, person in the history of computer science. He
>set ARPA on course towards constructing ARPANET and directed Project MAC at
>MIT; he also funded Engelbart's work on creating the mouse and windows. If
>anyone has recollections of Licklider, I think we would all be delighted
>to read them.]
I agree that Licklider is very important and we have tried to document
some of his contribution in our Netizens netbook. It would be
good to see some discussion of his contribution here on this list
as well as hear memories of him and his work.
Ronda
au329@cleveland.freeenet.edu
rh120@columbia.edu
--
Ronda Hauben "The Netizens: On the History and Impact of
au329@cleveland.freenet.edu Usenet and the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
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