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Before Bitcoin: Pt.4-00s "New Millenium"
FROM CRYPTOGRAPHERS TO CYPHERPUNKS (1990S - 2008):
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
Blockchains are at the computing frontier, as PCs were in the 1980s, the internet was in the 1990s, and mobile phones were in the 2010s. People look back today on classic moments in computing and wonder what it was like to be there. Noyce and Moore. Jobs and Wozniak. Page and Brin. Hobbyists dabbling, debating, driving forward. Tinkerers hacking a... See more
Chris Dixon • 16 insights from New York Times bestseller Read Write Own - a16z crypto
But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts
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