James J. Shackel

Informative with dry automaton narration

Revisado: 11-30-19

A very informative book which fills the gap nicely between mainframes and micro-computers. Lots of information about the origins of: PLATO, time-share computing, early social networking via PLATO, early email and instant messaging, network gaming, etc.

I was uncomfortable with much of the politically correct talk regarding chauvinism at Dartmouth in the computer labs. The guys emulating Football in BASIC were doing so because it was fun. There’s little evidence they did so as some expression of male-dominance power BS, or to exclude women intentionally. FOTBAL is fun! Video gaming is ultimately about simulating events most of us cannot do in the real world: fighting aliens, flying a 737, space travel, playing in the Super Bowl, designing cities, crushing candy, farming, etc. Football skill and computing expertise are generally extremely mutually exclusive.

To suggest football was intentionally chosen by early male computer enthusiasts as a move to repress/exclude women is honestly just silly.

My university computing days covered the years 1982-1987. In those days we computer nerds would have loved to include more women into the male-dominant tech realm. I cannot remember a single female Computer Science Engineering student at my school whom wasn’t also a foreign student. Surely a sad reality.

We did not exclude women nor feel threatened by their presence in the classroom. Most of the women I studied beside easily outperformed me. Still, not threatened.

After listening to this book I’m left wondering why the feminist politics were injected into an otherwise wonderful body of work? I’m a feminist BTW. Waving the BS flag on the notion of threatened men imtentionallu excluding women from early computing.

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Okay

Revisado: 08-22-16

A mildly interesting book with a pretty pathetic story. She mentions her clients clinical and mostly disgusting requests. Few insights on the psychology behind the situations and participants. I would have preferred a deeper angle. The narration is solid yet the male voice mocking is full of distain. I'm very liberally minded yet the sex parts grossed me out. Underwhelmed overall.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 07-22-15

I had trouble turning this off in between listens because the story was so interesting. Great audiobook!

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Well Read by Author, enthusiastic, great learning!

Revisado: 05-17-15

Shows how Paul co-opted Christianity along with the Romans to sell it to the Gentiles in Rome. Peter and James remained Jews after Jesus' death, following the laws of the Torah and Moses. The Romans then clearly destroyed Jerusalem, killed everyone, and forever severed the ties between That destroyed Temple in Jerusalem; while marginalizing James (the bishop of bishops) and Peter (head and first apostle). Oh yes, they burned lots of documents in Jerusalem and basically turned to Paul's refuted teachings, the disgraced and censured, into what is basically 50% of the New Testament.

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