Talk:Whole Earth Catalog

message: In Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture turner reports Alan Kay of xerox PARC saying in 2004, "we thought of the Whole Earth Catalog as a print version of what the Internet was going to be." (112)
On a separate note, i was wondering if someone could connect the page for the People's Computer Company with this page. they are both reported on by turner and in Levy's Hackers there is quite a bit of story missing from these pages. Literedball (talk) 05:24, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another reference to WEC as precursor to WWW

message: one during the SECOND woodstock era. Dsgncr8or 00:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  There were TWO issues... 

message: Could anyone provide me with any information about the developing country WEC Spin-offs referred to in this section? 121.128.102.201 10:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WEC Spin-offs 

message: I know this is kind of cheesey, but, I just wanted to say thanks to the people that contributed to this page. I just heard about the catalog, and it was nice to be able to find out more on wikipedia. Jerimee 04:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  thanks 

message: I'm not sure how to work it into the article, or whether it's worth a new list-article to itself, but from my few copies of the catalog, here are the section headings given. I could add the dozens of subsections too, if warranted. Hope it helps, do with what thy will. -- Quiddity 22:25, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section heading variations 

message: Thanks to the anon that added the publication history table!
There is an incompletgejhzjvjhesjcgéhfffhudlwe listing at Back Issues - Whole Earth Catalog [wholeearth.com], but it doesn't list the titles accurately, nor all of the editions (it's missing the "1981 - The Next Whole Earth Catalog, revised" edition, for example).
Where are there more reliable/complete listings, that we can use as a citation for the table? -- Quiddity (talk) 00:09, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the pub history because it was something I wanted to see, and I could not find a good one online anywhere.  The information was cobbled together from a number of different sources (hence the incompleteness of it -- which I was heartened to see somebody already filling in missing blanks!)  Sources included: the aforementioned wholeearth.com listing, Amazon search, Barnes & Noble search, an online book database software called Book Collectorz.com out of Amsterdam which I subscribe to, the Stewart Brand wiki article, my own collection of WECs and those for sale on eBay and Amazon.  It's a work-in-progress and hopefully folks will fill it out over time. Rcarlberg (talk) 19:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a copy of the catalog.  On the cover it states "The (updated) Last Whole Earth Catalog" and states the cost at "$6", as well as "16th Edition, June, 1975".  You may wish to add it to the table.  Thanks for the good work. - KitchM (talk) 22:07, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication history 

message: TheLand » Rancho Diablo: "I lived in that garage with Heather Hairston in the late 1970’s on a commune known as Ranch Diablo, where the Whole Earth Catalog, Supplements and the Domebooks were produced by Stewart Brand and staff."
At a wiki, so not a reliable-source for citing, but many interesting quotes, and worth pursuing.  -- Quiddity (talk) 18:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rancho Diablo