This documentary tells the forgotten stories of some of the most influential personal computer pioneers in the San Francisco Bay Area In the late 1960s, big mainframe computers owned by large corporations and the government were seen as tools of control The Hippie movement and the antiVietnam war protests served as a hotbed for a revolutionary idea creating an affordable home computer to be used by ordinary people as a counterbalance to Big Brother Well, the rest is history, but what has happened to the early ideals and the initial ethos of free sharing, As one of the visionaries puts it quotIt#39s true that what I helped to create is today#39s establishment That#39s what I was trying to get rid of the establishmentquot
