Superb keynote by @LaineNooney@mastodon.social at now up on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5XVojLWIQo

It's a talk about the historiography of the history of computing, by way of their book "The Apple II Age".

...my secret anxiety... is that we have vastly misunderstood the actual powers at play that have put these technologies on our desks and in our pockets.

...a huge part of what drove the adoption of personal computing were the financial motivations of a small, elite class of people who won so hard that they literally disappear out of the narrative about how computing became personal.

Outstanding stuff.