It's sad how little the counterculture knows of its own history. Saul Landau bemoans the fact that, while in Europe students learn the history of recent struggles from those who lived through them, in the U.S. every new freshman college class, for instance, has no idea how recently the liberties it enjoys - co-ed living, free speech, and to be politically active, etc. - were won, and what it took to accomplish this.

The timeline has gaps all over the place, and details I have not yet fully checked out. I'm sure it has all kinds of personal biases, including being biased much more to the U.S. and to the white middle-class than it should be. Help fix it. Make suggestions. (Please note: the terms "negro" and "Indian" have been used until the date when substitutes for these terms were proposed. Also, I've been very understated about the punk movement and Gen X, mostly because, if I get into those in detail, I'll never finish, but also, after all, because I was a sixties person. If you think there are crucial dates/events from those cultures that this has to have, let me know, but really, someone who is familiar with them should do another whole timeline for them. Somebody please do. We need chroniclers in this culture.)

I hereby copyright this work, in case I ever find a publisher for it. But you may download it, copy it, and GIVE it to friends, as long as no money is ever exchanged for it. Like Bruce Sterling says, you don't own it, it's just passing through you. Have fun, and bury me in e-mail about what you think should be included or changed. This could become a collective memory if we all participate.

Please send your e-mail to my account at: mareev (at) well (dot) com and put "Timeline" in your e-mail title, so I'll be easily able to sort it out. After all, I'm still trying to get a book written. :^)