Because the hippies invented it as a means of “doing their own thing”
MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.350J The Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004 | Readings
Pfaffenberger, Bryan. “The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution Was No Revolution.” Anthropological Quarterly 61, no. 1 1988: 39-47
Haha! The shorter version!
The shortest I could come up with… ;-)