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A somewhat serious question on the hippies I want to ask HN (as a non-American): are there any enclaves of hippie culture left in the American culture today? What I'm mostly wondering is if someone who was there with the "hippies" back in the day could identify traces of it in the present-day hacker culture.

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Yes. Berkeley in particular was a hotspot of 1960s hippiedom and later hackerdom (there's a reason it's BSD Unix).

Read about Stewart Brand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand

He was influential in the hippie counterculture, and later one of the early online communities, The WELL ("Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link").

More here: http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415_chap4.html


Enclaves of hippie culture in America? Loads. Floyd, VA, Asheville, NC, Nevada City, CA, Yellow Springs, OH... Every state has 2, 3 or more enclaves.

In "hacker culture" today? No.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said




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