I love the coffee mug and the cookie with a bite taken out it! A man after my own heart. I moved to California in 1987 because of the WEC - specifically because of the review of A Pattern Language in the "The Next Whole Earth Catalog" and I worked as an apprentice for Chris Alexander. Later, in 1991-1994 I worked at The WELL (which was half-owned by the Point Foundation) and met Stewart Brand during that time, while he was working on "How Building Learn". While working at The WELL I hired a contractor for some programming work, who in 2007 helped me get a gig at Apple, where I still work. The Whole Earth Catalog certainly changed my life.
Thanks so much for this overview. The catalog was a little before my time, but I have seen many references to it without any actual examples. I now feel like I have some idea of what made it so loved.
I grew up with these in my house! My parents used to get it. I spent hours thumbing through that awesome catalog! We had a commune and co-op that we were part of. What cool memories! Edit my pop used the get the Edmonds Scientific catalog and ordered a house latex balloon that he had planned on attaching to an aluminum lawn chair to be able to try and float with. He had a huge tank of helium. Luckily for him, he misplaced the balloon somewhere… he’s been dead now of almost 20 years. I miss him. You’ve brought back some great memories! Thanks
My copy is an absolute mint 1970 edition that still has the original brown paper mailing cover protecting it's groovy contents. Every good hippie should have a copy ! That and some Walter Dyer moccasins to wear. Right on, power to the people !
I was born in 1972 so I wasn't around at the time but I have the big Last Whole Earth Catalog from 1971 and a Fall 1969 edition. I also have a 1973 knockoff called the New Earth Catalog, which looks deceptively like the Whole Earth Catalog, including layout and typefont, but is not. If I'm not mistaken the publishers of the New Earth Catalog received a cease and desist from Whole Earth.
The newest edition is a website. They see no reason for a hard copy. Back issues are not going to be republished because much of the content is out of date. Especially in terms of many of the businesses no longer exist.
Winnebiko II on 1988 CNN Science and Technology Report 4,541 views Steven Roberts This CNN piece aired July 4-10, 1988, and shows my Winnebiko II bicycle. At the time, I had completed about 16,000 miles around the US, and was about to begin work on the final version (BEHEMOTH), which was to take 3 years. The latest addition to the bike was an Oki cellular phone... high tech at the time. See microship.com for more on this and related projects. This video is the first of a large pile of old VHS dubs that I will be converting and posting on TH-cam. The bike is now in the Computer History Museum, and I am doing similar things with a sailboat. SoulfulDotNL He typed in binary :') Steven Roberts Yep! In that version, it was pretty close to straight ASCII... the low 5 bits were split between left and right hand strongest fingers, and the weaker fingers were the zone bits (with special single keys for return, backspace, and space). Every character was a combination, which was essentially entered when I let go. It was about half the normal keyboard typing speed (squeeze, squeeze, squeeze... not going for one key while coming off another), but I got around that with a little library of frequently used phrases and corresponding short forms. Tyvm would become Thank you very much, and so on. In the later BEHEMOTH version, I did a letter-frequency-based system that would be theoretically faster, but I didn't spend enough time with that one to become speedy.
I love the coffee mug and the cookie with a bite taken out it! A man after my own heart. I moved to California in 1987 because of the WEC - specifically because of the review of A Pattern Language in the "The Next Whole Earth Catalog" and I worked as an apprentice for Chris Alexander. Later, in 1991-1994 I worked at The WELL (which was half-owned by the Point Foundation) and met Stewart Brand during that time, while he was working on "How Building Learn". While working at The WELL I hired a contractor for some programming work, who in 2007 helped me get a gig at Apple, where I still work. The Whole Earth Catalog certainly changed my life.
Matisse Enzer Cookies are awesome. :)
Thanks for rhe memories
I informed my 1980s college professor that his textbook on Electronic Music was in the catalog. He was pleasantly surprised.
Thanks so much for this overview. The catalog was a little before my time, but I have seen many references to it without any actual examples. I now feel like I have some idea of what made it so loved.
I grew up with these in my house! My parents used to get it. I spent hours thumbing through that awesome catalog! We had a commune and co-op that we were part of. What cool memories! Edit my pop used the get the Edmonds Scientific catalog and ordered a house latex balloon that he had planned on attaching to an aluminum lawn chair to be able to try and float with. He had a huge tank of helium. Luckily for him, he misplaced the balloon somewhere… he’s been dead now of almost 20 years. I miss him. You’ve brought back some great memories! Thanks
😂😂 Maan basically wrote the script for Disney's Up 😊 thanks for sharing ❤
love these videos, people sharing their passions is so endearing
keep going bru 🤙
Very best information to giving me about the story of building domes. thank you so much sir.
I found a copy of the Last Whole Earth Catalog at a flea market a few years ago. I bought it for one dollar and am currently making a video about it!
I received the most recent edition of the WEC as a holiday gift in 1970. Did it change my life? Probably, most likely, YES!!
My copy is an absolute mint 1970 edition that still has the original brown paper mailing cover protecting it's groovy contents. Every good hippie should have a copy ! That and some Walter Dyer moccasins to wear. Right on, power to the people !
I loved that book
I was born in 1972 so I wasn't around at the time but I have the big Last Whole Earth Catalog from 1971 and a Fall 1969 edition. I also have a 1973 knockoff called the New Earth Catalog, which looks deceptively like the Whole Earth Catalog, including layout and typefont, but is not. If I'm not mistaken the publishers of the New Earth Catalog received a cease and desist from Whole Earth.
I have fond mid 90's early childhood memories of the Whole Earth Catalog, just getting back into it.
Id heard Whole Earth mentioned lot of times and wondered what exactly was in it.
Used an early '70s version to order books, tools, a tipi... an invaluable resource for this surburban-girl college dropout with no hands-on skills.
My grand father owns the rights to this magazine now. I have ever single publication x25
Why someone would republish the Whole Earth Catalog? Maybe too many issues of liability. Mine was crumbled due to them using poor-quality paper.
The newest edition is a website. They see no reason for a hard copy.
Back issues are not going to be republished because much of the content is out of date. Especially in terms of many of the businesses no longer exist.
Come here after watching Steve Jobs speech
The WEC was the paper version of the Internet.
Winnebiko II on 1988 CNN Science and Technology Report
4,541 views
Steven Roberts
This CNN piece aired July 4-10, 1988, and shows my Winnebiko II bicycle. At the time, I had completed about 16,000 miles around the US, and was about to begin work on the final version (BEHEMOTH), which was to take 3 years. The latest addition to the bike was an Oki cellular phone... high tech at the time. See microship.com for more on this and related projects.
This video is the first of a large pile of old VHS dubs that I will be converting and posting on TH-cam. The bike is now in the Computer History Museum, and I am doing similar things with a sailboat.
SoulfulDotNL
He typed in binary :')
Steven Roberts
Yep! In that version, it was pretty close to straight ASCII... the low 5 bits were split between left and right hand strongest fingers, and the weaker fingers were the zone bits (with special single keys for return, backspace, and space). Every character was a combination, which was essentially entered when I let go. It was about half the normal keyboard typing speed (squeeze, squeeze, squeeze... not going for one key while coming off another), but I got around that with a little library of frequently used phrases and corresponding short forms. Tyvm would become Thank you very much, and so on.
In the later BEHEMOTH version, I did a letter-frequency-based system that would be theoretically faster, but I didn't spend enough time with that one to become speedy.