Geeks bearing gifts

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…he future, which might one day care about the things that got lost." Yet most programmers seem to be entirely unaware that these marvels ever existed. Even Ted Nelson's "Geeks Bearing Gifts", the supposedly iconoclastic "we're doing it all wrong" history of computing leaves them out entirely. How many people here have ever programmed on a Lisp Machine? I recall that PG once wrote about his experiences. Has anyone else? Why is there scarcely any memory left in the community of what it was like to use one?

"Geeks Bearing Gifts" was a huge disappointment. I read through it in about an hour. Not much insight for anyone on HN and in the end a waste of time.