[HN Gopher] Complete Whole Earth Catalogs Archive Available Onli...
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       Complete Whole Earth Catalogs Archive Available Online and Free
        
       Author : yarapavan
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2023-10-30 12:07 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (wholeearth.info)
 (TXT) w3m dump (wholeearth.info)
        
       | yarapavan wrote:
       | "The Whole Earth Catalog" was a groundbreaking publication that
       | first appeared in 1968 and continued intermittently until 1998.
       | It was created by Stewart Brand and his team as a tool for the
       | counterculture and the burgeoning environmental movement, and it
       | played a significant role in shaping the ethos of the 1960s and
       | 1970s.
       | 
       | The catalog contained product listings, essays, and articles on a
       | wide variety of topics, including alternative energy, sustainable
       | living, self-sufficiency, and personal empowerment. It was known
       | for its eclectic mix of content, its DIY ethos, and its
       | commitment to a holistic, systems-oriented view of the world.
       | 
       | "We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far,
       | remotely done power and glory--as via government, big business,
       | formal education, church--has succeeded to the point where gross
       | defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to
       | these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing--
       | power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his
       | own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his
       | adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process
       | are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG."
       | 
       | The quote by Steve Jobs in his famous stanford commencement
       | speech - stay hungry, stay foolish - was from Oct 1974 edition,
       | last page.
       | 
       | Direct link: https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-epilog-
       | october-1974?fo...
        
       | helveticar wrote:
       | For a British kid from an impoverished background this was (early
       | 70s) my Internet, vast range of content, intelligently selected
       | and with capsule reviews/extracts of everything which was
       | included.
       | 
       | When, 20 years later, I first saw the Web this was what I hoped
       | it would become, I was disappointed.
        
         | potatopatch wrote:
         | I felt like the early web lived up to this, though in
         | retrospect it may have already been in quality decline compared
         | to the earlier (Internet&BBS) protocols.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related:
       | 
       |  _The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872774 - Oct 2023 (81
       | comments)
        
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