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Genre/Form: | Interviews |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Levy |
ISBN: | 9781449388393 1449388396 |
OCLC Number: | 615926697 |
Description: | xvi, 499 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | pt. I. True hackers : Cambridge : the fifties and sixties. The tech model railroad club -- The hacker ethic -- Spacewar -- Greenblatt and Gosper -- The midnight computer wiring society -- Winners and losers -- Life -- pt. II. Hardware hackers : Northern California : the seventies. Revolt in 2100 -- Every man a god -- The homebrew computer club -- Tiny BASIC -- Woz -- Secrets -- pt. III: Game hackers : the Sierras: the eighties. The wizard and the princess -- The brotherhood -- The third generation -- Summer camp -- Frogger -- Applefest -- Wizard vs. wizards -- pt. IV. The last of true hackers : Cambridge : 1983. The last of the true hackers -- Afterword: ten years after -- Afterword: 2010. |
Responsibility: | Steven Levy. |
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Abstract:
Steven Levy's classic book about the original hackers of the computer revolution is now available in a special 25th anniversary edition, with updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Richard Stallman, and Tim O'Reilly.
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