Stewart Brand's counterculture publication of 1968, subtitled access to tools, which reviewed and pointed readers to the tools, books and materials of self-sufficient making. Its faith that people can learn to make and fix anything became a founding document of the DIY and maker ethos. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Milestone Year WhenThe first issue was created in fall 1968, published by the Portola Institute and conceived by Stewart Brand. 1 LocationMenlo Park, California, United States 1 Connections
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Access to tools: a founding document of the self-reliant making ethos
Source Whole Earth Catalog (Wikipedia)
Source Whole Earth Catalog (Wikipedia)
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1. Whole Earth Catalog (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHistory section
Using the most basic typesetting and page-layout tools, Brand and his colleagues created the first issue of The Whole Earth Catalog in 1968.
Impact and legacy section
It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Origins section
The title Whole Earth Catalog came from a previous project by Stewart Brand. In 1966, he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, one of the first images of the "Whole Earth".
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