The Emacs Communeby@samwilliams
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The Emacs Commune

by Sam Williams17mNovember 17th, 2022
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The AI Lab of the 1970s was by all accounts a special place. Cutting-edge projects and top-flight researchers gave it an esteemed position in the world of computer science. The internal hacker culture and its anarchic policies lent a rebellious mystique as well. Only later, when many of the lab's scientists and software superstars had departed, would hackers fully realize the unique and ephemeral world they had once inhabited.

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Sam Williams (born 1969) is an American journalist.

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