Present-day movements and ideas built around personal making, self-teaching and open project sharing, following the strand division craft-history surveys draw between the historical reform movements and this later contemporary strand. Belongs here: the maker movement, do-it-yourself as a movement and craftivism, the activist inflection of contemporary making. Does not belong here: a historical reform movement from before the personal-computing and open-project era, grouped above.
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1. Do It Yourself (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationDo It Yourself (Wikipedia), History section, 1950s usage sentenceQuote, Do It Yourself (Wikipedia), History section, 1950s usage sentence
the phrase 'do it yourself' had come into common usage (in standard English) by the 1950s, in reference to the emergence of a trend of people undertaking home improvement
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