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Posted on 20090827 by MG
The Whole Earth Catalog
Between 1968 and 1972, Stewart Brand published, in paper form, The Whole Earth Catalog which was defined as
“a paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your life.”
It was a kind of Wikipedia ante litteram. A collection of articles on the most disparate topics, often written by personalities of the time: from William Burroughs to the Black Panther Party, from the poet Ferlinghetti to the architect Buckminster Fuller.
Now The Whole Earth Catalog is online in Internet Archive. An index is here
