Language English Media type Print Originally published 17 December 2008 Country United States of America | Publication date December 17, 2008 ISBN 978-0-578-00438-9 | |
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Publisher Mindful Press, Sausalito, California Similar Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Literary Machines, What Would Google D, POSSIPLEX: Movies - Intellect | ||
Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way is a book about the history of computing, written by Ted Nelson and published in 2008 by Mindful Press.
Mentions of Wikipedia
Nelson comments that owing to the strong peer-review nature of Wikipedia, editing is really a misnomer. He says that submission for consideration is a more accurate description of how volunteers contribute to the encyclopedia. He also comments about Wikipedia's structure that "it is built on a key part of the Xanadu data structure; each page is a series of quotations, or transclusions from separate editing operations."
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Geeks Bearing Gifts Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA