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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.
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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Access to tools: a founding document of the self-reliant making ethos
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1. Whole Earth Catalog (Wikipedia)
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Using the most basic typesetting and page-layout tools, Brand and his colleagues created the first issue of The Whole Earth Catalog in 1968.
1. Whole Earth Catalog (Wikipedia)
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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.
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