But on another note, if you're fascinated by this history, I highly recommend Fred Turner's excellent 2008 book, "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism" (https://books.google.com/books?id=2SNFpgX_WigC). His more recent article, "Burning Man at Google: a cultural infrastructure for new media production," is also a great read (http://nms.sagepub.com/content/11/1-2/73 ; http://web.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20Burning%20Man%20at...)