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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

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(thing) by robertheinlein (?) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:05:41

This is a non-fiction work by Steven Levy, which chronicles the history of hacking from Cambridge in the late 1950's all the way to the beginnings of Richard Stallman. It covers greats like Bill Gosper, Richard Greenblatt, Peter Deutsch, Steven Wozniak, Lee Felenstein, Roberta Williams, Richard Garriot and many more. Read it!

(thing) by Superunknown_GP (5.3 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Fri Apr 27 2001 at 6:56:33

ISBN: 0-14-100051-1

Required reading for any real hacker. Steven Levy (recently, author of Crypto) traces hacking through several of its early periods, from The Model Railroad Club, or TMRC, at MIT, through the MIT AI Lab, through the Homebrew Computer Club and Steve Wozniak, and from there into a few early Californian gaming companies (namely, Sierra On-Line, Brøderbund, and Sirius), and concludes with a brief look at the exploits of Richard M. Stallman. A scarily accurate look at the hacker psyche. Any real hacker will recognize himself somewhere in this book.

And it's funny too.

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Hacker Ethic Getting what you want from disgruntled lab techs The revolution is over, and we have lost Steven Levy
Steve Wozniak Richard M. Stallman Roberta Williams hacker
AT&T Crash of 1990 crypto Richard Garriott Richard Greenblatt
Geek Pride Festival Every new technology has been endowed with the potential to transform society Paint your computer Hackers
Fuck me Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook The Hacker Crackdown: part 1, section 2 Cypherpunk
information technology professionals in the nonprofit sector Master of Puppets Sirius My Very Own Fight Club
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