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TIME Magazine Domestic
SPECIAL ISSUE, Spring 1995 Volume 145, No. 12

HISTORY
WE OWE IT ALL TO THE HIPPIES
Forget antiwar protests, Woodstock, even long hair.
The real legacy of the sixties generation is the computer revolution
BY STEWART BRAND

Newcomers to the Internet are often startled to discover themselves not so much in some soulless colony of technocrats
as in a kind of cultural Brigadoon - a flowering remnant of the '60s,
when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution.
At the time, it all seemed dangerously anarchic (and still does to many),
but the counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations
of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal-computer revolution.

We - the generation of the '60s - were inspired by the "bards and hot-gospellers of technology," as business historian Peter Drucker described media maven Marshall McLuhan and technophile Buckminster Fuller. And we bought enthusiastically into the exotic technologies of the day, such as Fuller's geodesic domes and psychoactive drugs like LSD. We learned from them, but ultimately they turned out to be blind alleys. Most of our generation scorned computers as the embodiment of centralized control. But a tiny contingent - later called "hackers" - embraced computers and set about transforming them into tools of liberation.
That turned out to be the true royal road to the future.
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Do it yourself," we said, happily perverting J.F.K.'s Inaugural exhortation.

Our ethic of self-reliance came partly from science fiction. We all read Robert Heinlein's epic Stranger in a Strange Land as well as his libertarian screed-novel, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Hippies and nerds alike reveled in Heinlein's contempt for centralized authority. To this day, computer scientists and technicians are almost universally science-fiction fans. And ever since the 1950s, for reasons that are unclear to me, science fiction has been almost universally libertarian in outlook.
As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, there were three generations of youthful computer programmers who deliberately led the rest of civilization away from centralized mainframe computers and their predominant sponsor, IBM. "The Hacker Ethic," articulated by Levy, offered a distinctly countercultural set of tenets. Among them:
"Access to computers should be unlimited and total."
"All information should be free."
"Mistrust authority - promote decentralization."
"You can create art and beauty on a computer."
"Computers can change your life for the better."

Nobody had written these down in manifestoes before;
it was just the way hackers behaved and talked while shaping the leading edge of computer technology.
In the 1960s and early '70s, the first generation of hackers emerged in university computer-science departments. They transformed mainframes into virtual personal computers, using a technique called time sharing that provided widespread access to computers. Then in the late '70s, the second generation invented and manufactured the personal computer. These nonacademic hackers were hard-core counterculture types - like Steve Jobs, a Beatle-haired hippie who had dropped out of Reed College, and Steve Wozniak, a Hewlett-Packard engineer. Before their success with Apple, both Steves developed and sold "blue boxes," outlaw devices for making free telephone calls. Their contemporary and early collaborator, Lee Felsenstein, who designed the first portable computer, known as the Osborne 1, was a New Left radical who wrote for the renowned underground paper the Berkeley Barb.

As they followed the mantra "Turn on, tune in and drop out," college students of the '60s also dropped academia's traditional disdain for business. "Do your own thing" easily translated into "Start your own business." Reviled by the broader social establishment, hippies found ready acceptance in the world of small business. They brought an honesty and a dedication to service that was attractive to vendors and customers alike. Success in business made them disinclined to "grow out of" their countercultural values, and it made a number of them wealthy and powerful at a young age.

The third generation of revolutionaries, the software hackers of the early '80s, created the application, education and entertainment programs for personal computers. Typical was Mitch Kapor, a former transcendental-meditation teacher, who gave us the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3, which ensured the success of IBM's Apple-imitating PC. Like most computer pioneers, Kapor is still active. His Electronic Frontier Foundation, which he co-founded with a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, lobbies successfully in Washington for civil rights in cyberspace.

In the years since Levy's book, a fourth generation of revolutionaries has come to power. Still abiding by the Hacker Ethic, these tens of thousands of netheads have created myriad computer bulletin boards and a nonhierarchical linking system called Usenet. At the same time, they have transformed the Defense Department-sponsored ARPAnet into what has become the global digital epidemic known as the Internet. The average age of today's Internet users, who number in the tens of millions, is about 30 years. Just as personal computers transformed the '80s, this latest generation knows that the Net is going to transform the '90s. With the same ethic that has guided previous generations, today's users are leading the way with tools created initially as "freeware" or "shareware," available to anyone who wants them.

Of course, not everyone on the electronic frontier identifies with the countercultural roots of the '60s.
One would hardly call Nicholas Negroponte, the patrician head of M.I.T.'s Media Lab, or Microsoft magnate Bill Gates "hippies.

" Yet creative forces continue to emanate from that period. Virtual reality - computerized sensory immersion - was named, largely inspired and partly equipped by Jaron Lanier, who grew up under a geodesic dome in New Mexico, once played clarinet in the New York City subway and still sports dreadlocks halfway down his back. The latest generation of supercomputers, utilizing massive parallel processing, was invented, developed and manufactured by Danny Hillis, a genial longhair who set out to build "a machine that could be proud of us." Public-key encryption, which can ensure unbreakable privacy for anyone, is the brainchild of Whitfield Diffie, a lifelong peacenik and privacy advocate who declared in a recent interview, "I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable."
Our generation proved in cyberspace that where self-reliance leads, resilience follows, and where generosity leads, prosperity follows. If that dynamic continues, and everything so far suggests that it will, then the information age will bear the distinctive mark of the countercultural '60s well into the new millennium.

Copyright 1995 Time Inc. All rights reserved.

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70s Invasion
An ultra cool site featuring massive information and links from the 70s music scene.

Another Woodstock 69
A collection of Woodstock Facts, Figures, Stories, Photos,
Current Happenings, Memorabilia, and Links. Assembled to paint a clearer picture of what happened.

Ask Earthman
A Great site where you can ask questions and get replies and a very cool site for kids.
Want to know more about Global Warming?

Bear
The incredible art and life of Bear.
If ya don't know, go to his site and be amazed!

Brautigan Bibliographical and Archive
His Life and Writings

Caretakers Gazette also Housesitter.Org
You can enjoy rent-free living as a property caretaker in desirable locations.
Estates, mansions, farms, ranches, resort homes, retreat centers, camps, hunting and fishing lodges, vacation homes, private islands,
and any other kind of property imaginable are listed in The GAZETTE.
* I have subscribed to Gary's Gazette for years and have found many friends and beautiful opportunites--
but you have to work it! and be real clear on what you want and what you can truly offer! (Lionheart)
Gary C. Dunn, Publisher
THE CARETAKER GAZETTE
caretaker@caretaker.org

Celebrating Growing Consciousness. A very cool site featuring CD and music reviews,
'thought of the day,' meditation, galleries and more. Believing in the capacity of the human race to evolve.

Cheech and Chong
Official Home page. Films, News, Bio’s and awesome links.

The Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969

City Lights Books
Check out our Beat Generation Bookstores
Co-founded by poet/painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore
and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.

Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg:
"Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert
where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality".

Communes Past and Present

Cosmik Debris Magazine
CD samplers and reviews, history and profiles and a virtual smorgasbord of other reviews
and columns to enlighten you. Cosmik radio and much more.

The Diggers
History of the San Francisco Diggers (1966-1968 and beyond)
with Archive of scanned and rare Sixties Ephemera including Digger and Free City Collective broadsides and manifestos

The Free-Fall Chronicles
The Diggers Review Peter Coyote's
'Sleeping Where I Fall'
History of the Diggers
The Diggers Archives

DivingNations Haight Ashbury
A very cool site about the Haight.

Electric Cool Acid
A Japanese site with tons of music links and international band links and yes, hippie links!
Check it out! Lots of Psychedlic Rock memmorbilia

Elecrohippies
Free Range Activism.
The idea is that community and environmental activists can work together,
with no organization except that which they agree to.
Putting activists with needs in touch with activists with resources to service those needs.

Envirolink Network
This site is a huge and well developed resource.
Envirolink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing
access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
Topics such as; climate change, energy, habitat conservation, oceans,
population, vegetarianism, water quality, wildlife and much, much more.

First Church of the Last Laugh
A site of Western idiocy. Check it out! The Pledge:
"I pledge allegiance, to the illusion, and to the pyramid scheme, for which it stands. One species, in denial, with error and excess by all."

Galactic Be-In
The Official Website of the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement,
Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. Enter The Dreamspell!

Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead. Their Official Website.
"What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been..."

MORE GRATEFUL DEAD AND PHISH LINKS
Jerry Garcia
Mickey Hart's New Site
The Best Of Grateful Dead
DaMoon
Dead Links
Grateful Woodstock Links
Steve Goodman's Dead Links

Grateful Dead Hour
Nationally syndicated radio show by David Gans. Crazy man!

PHISH LINKS
Official Phish Website
Pholk Tales
Phish Net
GameHenge

Greenpeace International
This is Greenpeace's International Homepage.

Greenpeace U.S.
This is Greenpeace's U.S.A. site.
Global warming, forests, genetic engineering, nuclear, oceans, toxics and more!

Hip Faerie
A space for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths, and allies who have roots in modern hip culture.
This is a safe space created to bring together hip brothers and sisters the world over,
to facilitate meetings, communication, and a sharing of ideas and philosophies.
HipFaerie is a place in which you can find and explore commonalities and differences.

Online Communities Directory:
a searchable online directory of intentional communities from North America and around the world provided by the FIC

Intrepid Trips
What happened to Ken Kesey? "The answer is never the answer.
What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking.
" The Merry Pranksters. Zyberjam, is the term Kesey coined to describe the action of Himself,
the Bus and the Merry Pranksters that will be viewed over the internet.

Love, Peace, Freedom, Harmony and Happiness
A beautiful site that explores the philosophy, spiritual aspects and discusses how to bring it all together into a way of life.
Remember "make love, not war." Also they feature The Rock and Roll of Honor, poetry and essays. Hippies In Africa!

Maine Vocals
From our friends in the Pine Tree State (Maine). Re-Legalization. Check it!

Music Festivals
So you were at Woodstock, or Monterey Pop, or Big Sur.
Maybe you just wish you could have gone because you really dig the music.
Or maybe you weren't old enough. Revisit the sights and sounds of those festivals.

NORML
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. "Working For Reform"

Peace and Love
"Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections." by Katherine Paterson.
A totally beautiful site totally devoted to Peace, Love and the Hippie.

The Peace Conspiracy

LITANY AGAINST FEAR
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Photo Flashbacks
Concert photos of major Rock Legends -Phoenix 60s Concerts.
Janis Joplin, The Doors, Alice Cooper, Donovan and many more!

Pieman
BONGS NOT BOMBS! NO TO DUMBYA'S RAW DEAL! BUSH OUT THE DOOR!!!! Stay All Night!

Planet Drum
Planet Drum was founded in 1973 to provide an effective grassroots approach to ecology that emphasizes sustainability,
community self-determination and regional self-reliance.

Psychedelic 60s
Photos and articles about the 60s from the University of Virginia.

Rainbow Family Tribute

Rain Forest and New Habitats
Care 2 Make a Difference, another great site to 'click and save'.
Rainforests, oceans, big cats, primates, abandoned pets, breast cancer and more!

Robert Altman Photography
Not the film director, the awesome photographer of Classic Rock and more! Just go and hang-out here for a few hours.
Wondrous photos from the 60s.
Visit Rob's Guest Gallery HERE at 60s & Further.

Stop The Violence
Sheena Flynn, a young sister with a great and truthful website. Please go visit her.

Sixties Project
Discussions, reviews, personal narratives, poetry, documents, exhibits.
Everything you would like to know or would like to share about the 60s.

Straight Theatre
The "Straight on the Haight" by Reg E. Williams is the true story of the people who renovated a vaudeville movie theater
in the middle of the Haight Ashbury during the Psychedelic 60's.
This multimedia environmental theater of light became known as the Straight Theater.
Here at the crossroads of Haight and Cole the Grateful Dead, Janis, Big Brother, Country Joe, Santana
and many other famous and infamous characters made history looking for the Aquarian Age.

Summer of Love
Site of famed sixties photographer Robert Altman.
Photographs of famous moments of the best decade of all time. Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin,
The Doors and Jim Morrison, The Jeffeson Airplane and many more. Highly recommended

Timothy Leary
The official Timothy Leary home page.
Be patient, it's worth it! All the conceptual ideas on this website are Timothy's own.
Most of the text is from his own pen.

For Timothy Leary's Books--Please go HERE!

UC Berkeley
'The Sixties'

The Vaults Of Erowid

Visual Journey of the 60s
A photographic exhibition by Lisa law examines themes from the 60s. Nice site if you have to explain what happened and why!

WELL's Woodstock Conference
An informative site based at the Well.
Good reports and information at Woodstock 94. Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link'.
Computer graphics and digital art at Woodstock, Psychedelic Trivia, etc.

Wild Bohemian
If it has anything to do with Bohemian's, it's here.
Hippies, Beat Generation, Grateful Dead, Bands, Dictionaries,
Who's Who and much, much more!

Woodstock "1969"
An awesome collection of Woodstock facts, figures, stories, photos,
current happenings, memorabilia, links, and assorted "really groovy remembrances"

Woodstock 69 Lives
Great site with really good information.

Woodstock and the Summer of 1969
This site has some original footage of Woodstock never seen before.
You need Real Player or you can download it on the site.

Woodstock Nation
Working To Secure The 1969 'Woodstock' Site For Perpetual Free Assembly.
It is important to us that the 38 acre Woodstock site be left free where people from all over the world
can continue to go and come together, to meet and share with one another.

Woodstock Preservation Archives
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