History courses

Browse public History courses with structured lessons, visuals, and practice on Wondering.

• The Dream Machine

  M. Mitchell Waldrop traces the birth of interactive, networked, and personal computing through J.C.R. Licklider, the psychologist whose vision of human-computer symbiosis and ARPA funding seeded time-sharing and the ARPANET, and whose ideas, carried by proteges like Robert Taylor, reached fruition at Xerox PARC.