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SAGE and a glimpse of group computing from before the PC (Interconnected)

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Posted on Tuesday 21 Dec 2021. 1,438 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

SAGE and a glimpse of group computing from before the PC 22.18, Tuesday 21 Dec 2021 Link to this post There was a fork in the road away from group computing, way back when. Right now we’re in the era of personal computers. Collaboration, social use of tools, togetherness: all of these are hacks on top of something that, at its core, was designed for the individual first. But there’s a particular photograph of group computing from the 1950s, from before the PC was invented… Ok I need to rattle out a story here about SAGE, and that will let me get to the photograph. I’m going to do this from mem

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