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+.. _history:
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+====================================
+Books about the history of computing
+====================================
+
+.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281
+.. continue at the IBM 360 comment
+
+*2024 Nov 17*
+
+* `A History of Modern Computing <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262531696/a-history-of-modern-computing/>`_
+* `A New History of Modern Computing <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542906/a-new-history-of-modern-computing/>`_
+* `A People's History of Computing in the United States <https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674970977>`_
+* `A Quarter Century of UNIX <https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salus_201910>`_
+* `Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires>`_
+* `Close to the Machine <https://books.google.com/books/about/Close_to_the_Machine.html>`_
+* `Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_Computer_Hardware_and_Software>`_
+* `Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers <https://www.colossus-computer.com/>`_
+* `Computer: A History of the Information Machine <https://www.routledge.com/Computer-A-History-of-the-Information-Machine/Campbell-Kelly-Aspray-Yost-Tinn-ConDiaz/p/book/9781032203430>`_
+* `Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book)>`_
+* `Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1987733W/Dealers_of_Lightning>`_
+* `Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer <https://books.google.com/books/about/Fire_in_the_Valley.html>`_
+* `Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution <https://www.stevenlevy.com/hackers-heroes-of-the-computer-revolution>`_
+* `How the Internet Happened <https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631493072>`_
+* `In the Beginning was the Command Line <https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt>`_
+* `In the Plex <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Plex>`_
+* `Masters of Doom <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom>`_
+* `Show-Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/541511>`_
+* `The Art of Computer Programming <https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html>`_
+* `The Computer and the Brain <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_and_the_Brain>`_
+* `The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)>`_
+* `The Dream Machine <https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine>`_
+  * It's billed as a biography of J. C. R. Licklider but it's really a history
+    of why time-sharing was revolutionary and ARPANET (which was obviously revolutionary)
+* `The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture <http://friendlyorangeglow.com/>`_
+* `The Fugitive Game <https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jonathan-littman/the-fugitive-game/9780316528696/>`_
+* `The Road Ahead <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Gates_book)>`_
+* `The Second Coming of Steve Jobs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_of_Steve_Jobs>`_
+* `The Soul of a New Machine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine>`_
+* `Underground: Hacking, madness, and obsession on the electronic frontier <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4686>`_
+* `What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said>`_
+* `Where Wizards Stay Up Late <https://katiehafner.com/books-new/where-wizards-stay-up-late/>`_

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