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How Psychedelia and Counterculture Helped Build the Internet
Original: Counterculture, Psychedelia and Hacking: How Drugs Built the Internet
A feature explores the unlikely roots of the internet, arguing that 1960s counterculture, psychedelic experimentation and early hacking communities shaped the personal computing and network technologies that followed. It highlights how figures tied to the era's drug culture helped drive ideals of open information and decentralized computing that defined the early web, drawing fresh attention to the movement's overlooked role in tech history.
Why now: Ongoing interest in the unconventional cultural origins of Silicon Valley and the internet
the internetcounterculture movementHigh Times Magazine
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- Counterculture, Psychedelia and Hacking: How Drugs Built the Internet · High Times Magazine
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