Someone posted this and I started to read it and I'm not a fan I think there are a lot of things missing, I figured I would share as it may be of interest to others. https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/ This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s. The intent is for this website to be used by self-forming small groups that want to create a “watching club” (like a book club) and discuss aspects of technology history that are featured in this series.
Pretty cool! On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 11:41 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Someone posted this and I started to read it and I'm not a fan I think there are a lot of things missing, I figured I would share as it may be of interest to others.
https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/
This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s.
The intent is for this website to be used by self-forming small groups that want to create a “watching club” (like a book club) and discuss aspects of technology history that are featured in this series.
I think they are missing readings such as "Fire in the Valley" and "Hackers" by Steven Levy The author doesn't mention Community Memory at all. On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:45 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Pretty cool!
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 11:41 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Someone posted this and I started to read it and I'm not a fan I think there are a lot of things missing, I figured I would share as it may be of interest to others.
https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/
This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s.
The intent is for this website to be used by self-forming small groups that want to create a “watching club” (like a book club) and discuss aspects of technology history that are featured in this series.
Do those aspects include the anachronisms in the series? I did a drinking game over them while binge watching the series and ended up drinking so much that I woke up the next morning standing in a cornfield with an Appletalk cable hanging around my neck, trying to figure out why it won't plug into my 1541 disk drive? On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 11:41 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Someone posted this and I started to read it and I'm not a fan I think there are a lot of things missing, I figured I would share as it may be of interest to others.
https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/
This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s.
The intent is for this website to be used by self-forming small groups that want to create a “watching club” (like a book club) and discuss aspects of technology history that are featured in this series.
I think it might be a way to meet different kinds of people who have a tangential interest at least in computing history of some sort On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 1:20 PM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Do those aspects include the anachronisms in the series? I did a drinking game over them while binge watching the series and ended up drinking so much that I woke up the next morning standing in a cornfield with an Appletalk cable hanging around my neck, trying to figure out why it won't plug into my 1541 disk drive?
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 11:41 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Someone posted this and I started to read it and I'm not a fan I think there are a lot of things missing, I figured I would share as it may be of interest to others.
https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/
This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s.
The intent is for this website to be used by self-forming small groups that want to create a “watching club” (like a book club) and discuss aspects of technology history that are featured in this series.
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