README

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Viimeisin historian havainto

29.10.2026

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The essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive. In README, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines seriously. A powerful catalyst for this transformation was, ironically, one of the oldest information technologies we have: books. The author uses a carefully chosen selection of books, some iconic and others obscure, to describe this technological revolution as it unfolded in the half century after 1945. The book begins with a fundamental question: How does a new technology become well-known and widespread? McCray answers this by using books as a window into significant moments in the history of computing, books, publishing, and American culture. README offers a literary history of computers and, more broadly, information technologies between World War II and the dot.com crash of the early

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9780262553483