Hacking Europe: from computer cultures to Demoscenes

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Introduction: How European Players Captured the Computer and Created the ScenesGerard Alberts and Ruth OldenzielPart I: Appropriating America: Making One's OwnTransnational (Dis)connection in Localizing Personal Computing in the Netherlands, 1975-1990Frank Veraart"Inside a Day You'll be Talking to it Like an Old Friend": The Making and Remaking of Sinclair Personal Computing in 1980s BritainThomas LeanLegal Pirates Ltd: Home Computing Cultures in Early 1980s GreeceTheodore LekkasPart II: Illegitimate Sons in Between: ScencesGalaxy and the New Wave: Yugoslav Computer Culture in the 1980sBruno JakicPlaying and Copying: Social Practices of Home Computer Users in Poland During the 1980sPatryk WasiakMultiple Users, Diverse Users: Demoscene and the Appropriation of the Personal Computer by Demoscene HackersAntti Silvast and Markku ReunanenPart III: Going Public: How to Change the WorldHeroes Yet Criminals of the German Computer RevolutionKai DenkerHow Amsterdam Invented the Internet: European Networks of Significance 1980-1995Caroline Nevejan and Alec BadenochUsers in the Dark: The Development of a User-Controlled Technology in the Czech Wireless Network CommunityJohan Soederberg