Hacking Europe From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alberts, Gerard (Editor), Oldenziel, Ruth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Computers and civilization.; Personal computers.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Personal Computing.; Computers and Society.

Hacking Europe focuses on the playfulness that was at the heart of how European users appropriated microcomputers in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The essays argue that users--whether the design of the projected use of computers was detailed or still unfinished--assigned their own meani...