Patrick McCray

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Writer/history professor @ UC-Santa Barbara & editor of various things
New book ➡ *Making Art Work* w. MIT Press (http://tinyurl.com/z6d3xd58)
Next book...coming soon 🤞

Like hashtags? => #Historian of #science & #technology (#HistSTM) based in #California and #Colorado. I'm interested in the histories of #art & #technology, #ColdWar science, and (currently) histories of #computing.

When I'm not #writing, and it's a good day, I'm outside: #flyfishing #mountainbiking #hiking #surfing

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Who wore it better?

#AI #doomsday

If you are having a bad/silly/stupid day...
Recall that Tim Berners-Lee's 1991 paper on the World Wide Web was rejected so he showed a poster instead
It's 1993 and commercialization of the World Wide Web is starting...
Bluebird morning...
"When Reality Mugged Silicon Valley"
Highly recommend John Tinnell's new book on the history of ubiquitous computing
Singularity Seafood

It's 1993 and you can explore the Internet FOR FREE (for 5 hours)...

#computing #history

It's 1989 and there is a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet

#computing #history

"Those who claim computers can never be creative are ignoring the fact that the human brain itself is simply an electro-chemical computer..."

(Ted Kaczynski, n.d.)

#Unabomber #computing #history @histstm