Turn on, tune in, log on / The PC and the Internet sprang from pot-smoking, acid-dropping California dreamers: "The implication throughout is that drugs were somehow one of the necessary conditions for the development of innovative PC technologies. Yet nowhere is that implication turned into a clear assertion -- the closest thing is a comment by highly inventive programmer (and occasional LSD user) Dan Ingalls: 'Well, where do you think these ideas came from?!' But Ingalls was joking, and elsewhere there is little evidence that drug use actually improved the ability of researchers to come up with ideas. Engelbart himself took LSD as part of Stolaroff's program and found its results disappointing. The only product he invented while under its influence was a 'tinkle toy,' a floating waterwheel for toilet training that spins when urinated on.

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