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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112815871504066494

@MaQuest , my printed copy!

#SolarPunkSunday #WholeEarthCatalog

https://www.europesays.com/people/39699/ How the Tech World Turned Evil #AndreessenHorowitz #DonaldTrump #EliezerYudkowsky #MarcAndreessen #MarkZuckerberg #PeterThiel #SiliconValley #StewartBrand #tech #Technology #WholeEarthCatalog

I was hugely influenced by the Whole Earth Catalog in my formative years, so it's great to see that its founder is still active: "Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/tech-legend-stewart-brand-on-musk-bezos-and-his-extraordinary-life-we-dont-need-to-passively-accept-our-fate
#stewartbrand #wholeearthcatalog #technology

Great find, @MaQuest ! I loved the #WholeEarthCatalog and still have a printed copy!

Whole Earth Archive
"Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes"
https://www.wholeearth.info/

#WholeEarthCatalog #Sustainability #SolarPunkSunday #WholeEarthArchive #FreeStuff #SelfSufficiency #Ecology #Education

"#StewartBrand is not one to get mired in nostalgia. Even though the 86-year-old’s claim to fame is founding the influential counterculture bible #WholeEarthCatalog — canon for first-generation hackers and homesteading hippies — he’s not stuck in the past. And that goes for the #floatinghome in Sausalito he’s inhabited happily for 40 years. "

https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/08/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-tugboat/

I quite like the redesign of @signalapp graphic identity, to be honest.

#WholeEarthCatalog

I don't know what kind of band Glass Animals is, but l really appreciate the Whole Earth Catalog vibe of their gig poster.

#counterculture #PrintCulture #GlassAnimals #wholeearthcatalog

A Short History Of The #WholeEarthCatalog

Dan
July 5, 2020

"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?

"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and #ecofriendly, #offgrid, #BackToNature, and #enviromentally conscious and #sustainable.

"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.

"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of #JohnMuir in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of #HenryDavidThoreau’s influential masterpiece #Walden.

"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of #RachelCarson’s classic #SilentSpring in 1962.

"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the #pollution of the Great Lakes.

[...]

"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"

Read more:
https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/

#WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #HippieGeek #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide #SolarPunkSunday

#20books20days 16/20 #Bookstodon #WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide #SolarPunkSunday

"the #WholeEarthCatalog was popular with the first generation of internet engineers, and established crucial “assumptions about the ideal relationships between #information, #technology, and #community.
The history of the #techindustry and #culture is full of this tension between the internet as an engineering plaything and as a #surveillance commodity."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/the-hacking-of-culture-and-the-creation-of-socio-technical-debt.html

“Remember the #WholeEarthCatalog? If you’re a fan of the anarcho-libertarian magazine that helped usher in a popular interest in all things tech and internet culture, there’s good news: a nearly complete collection of the publication’s archive has been digitized and uploaded to the web for easy browsing.”

https://gizmodo.com/whole-earth-catalog-stewart-brand-internet-archive-1850926953

The Whole of the #WholeEarthCatalog Is Now #Online
The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the #technohippie publishing house are finally available online in #digital form, all for #free

https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-internet-archive/

Incredible to see this review of *The Lord of the Rings* in the 1980 *Whole Earth Catalog*. It's partly incredible to think of how much effort must have gone into printing Tolkien's invented language with r technology available at the time, and partly incredible to think of a time everyone didn't already know about the Lord of the Rings.

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#wholeearthcatalog #tolkien

1971 “Hippy” Shortwave Listening

https://swling.com/blog/2023/11/1971-hippy-shortwave-listening/

#BillMeara #Soldersmoke #WholeEarthCatalog

[ La rivista che fu «internet prima di internet» - Il Post ]
https://www.ilpost.it/2023/11/13/whole-earth-catalog/ #WholeEarthCatalog

Today's #AI class was Pollanyi, Kuhn, are #LLMs a scientific revolution, Silicon Valley utopianism and the #WholeEarthCatalog. The books-and-knowledge-swirl dress felt apt. The remnant half hamburger and "man eclipsing nature" left behind on the whiteboard did, too.

“『WHOLE EARTH CATALOG』の“決定版”がオンライン無料公開──復活の意義は「読者が決める」” (2 users) https://htn.to/2Jz6DimKZN #wholeearthcatalog

#wholeearthcatalog “Whole Earth Index” (6 users) https://htn.to/2pLPRVhUyK

Whole Earth Index

Here lies a nearly-complete archive of #WholeEarth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the #WholeEarthCatalog, published by #StewartBrand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.

https://wholeearth.info/

This is *amazing* for #ComputerHistory & the #DIY #HackerCulture: the #WholeEarthCatalog is now available online at https://wholeearth.info/

“The Whole Of The Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online”, Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-internet-archive/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872774

#WholeEarth

Handy, especially #CoEvolutionQuarterly and #WholeEarthReview. I have most issues, not a complete set. There are many rather historically significant essays in some issues. But they are printed on sulfite paper and so, are not archival. https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-internet-archive/ #WholeEarthCatalog #collectorsitem

The Whole of the #WholeEarthCatalog Is Now Online

The seminal #DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.

https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-internet-archive/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_3f008613-d4cf-4134-892a-74f536e34cfa_popular4-1

Via @pluralistic: The whole of the #WholeEarthCatalog is now online for free! https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-internet-archive/

The complete archives of the Whole Earth Catalog are now online. Sadly, they’re just images of the original pages, not actual searchable text, but it’s wonderful that these have been preserved and made available. The original Maker movement.

#wholeearthcatalog #maker

https://wholeearth.info/

Just interloaned* Dig it! Building Bound to the Ground TASCHEN. Incredibly useful for all spatial designers, reminiscent of #WholeEarthCatalog Most images original or very rare, many projects redrawn. Mix of colour and BW

Approach: Deep history-now; overlooked precedents; landscape, ecology, humanity.

https://www.taschen.com/en/books/architecture-design/04697/bjarne-mastenbroek-dig-it-building-bound-to-the-ground

* I don't think I'll buy it, as in NZ it's ~$300, and I have a tiny office. But ... you could trawl libraries & the net for decades to uncover what this book contains.

@androcat Edge-notched cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card

I think I first heard of them through the story of how the Whole Earth Catalogue used these to manage their subscriber database. Kevin Kelly's written on that here:

https://kk.org/thetechnium/one-dead-media/

@writingslowly

Edit: Hashtaggery & tyop fix.

#EdgeNotchedCards #WholeEarthCatalog #KevinKelly #KeysortCards #InDecks #InDecksCards #McBeeCards

Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand, Portola Institute, Inc., July 1970.

#EarthDay #WholeEarthCatalog