* the Arts and Crafts Movement, popularized by Gustav Stickley in America around 1900.
* the corresponding Bauhaus movement of Germany around the same time.
* the Do-It-Yourself phenomenon arising in America following World War II.
* the Homesteading Movement beginning in America during the 1960s, whose adherents sought to get Back-to-the-land.
* Survivalists are often proponents, since Low technology is inherently more robust than its high-technology counter-part.
* most pejoratively, the Luddites, whose activities date to the very beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
* the various Living History Museums and Open air museums around the world, which strive to recreate bygone societies.
* the Amish and to a lesser extent some sects of the Mennonites, who specifically refuse some newer technologies to avoid undesireable consequences or effects on their societies.
* the corresponding Bauhaus movement of Germany around the same time.
* the Do-It-Yourself phenomenon arising in America following World War II.
* the Homesteading Movement beginning in America during the 1960s, whose adherents sought to get Back-to-the-land.
* Survivalists are often proponents, since Low technology is inherently more robust than its high-technology counter-part.
* most pejoratively, the Luddites, whose activities date to the very beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
* the various Living History Museums and Open air museums around the world, which strive to recreate bygone societies.
* the Amish and to a lesser extent some sects of the Mennonites, who specifically refuse some newer technologies to avoid undesireable consequences or effects on their societies.
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