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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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by Steven Levy and Steven Levy
Sales Rank: 68653
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Discount: 32 %
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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Penguin Non-Classics; Updated edition January 2, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141000511
ISBN-13: 978-0141000510
Product Dimensions:
7.7 x 5 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
Product Review
Steven Levy's classic book explains why the misuse of the word "hackers" to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution. Levy follows members of an MIT model railroad club--a group of brilliant budding electrical engineers and computer innovators--from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. These eccentric characters used the term "hack" to describe a clever way of improving the electronic system that ran their massive railroad. And as they started designing clever ways to improve computer systems, "hack" moved over with them. These maverick characters were often fanatics who did not always restrict themselves to the letter of the law and who devoted themselves to what became known as "The Hacker Ethic." The book traces the history of hackers, from finagling access to clunky computer-card-punching machines to uncovering the inner secrets of what would become the Internet. This story of brilliant, eccentric, flawed, and often funny people devoted to their dream of a better world will appeal to a wide audience.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The New York Times
"A remarkable collection of characters . . . courageously exploring mindspace, an inner world where nobody had ever been before."
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutio (Paperback)
This is the definitive book on the early hackers, true hackers, and should be required reading for all those people, generally with good intentions, that ignorantly refer to electronic criminals and vandals as "hackers". Steven starts his book with a "who's who" in hacking that includes Lee Felsenstein from Interval, Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, and Woz Woniak, among others, and then goes on in three parts to examine the original night hackers at MIT and other nodes of excellence, then the hardware hackers, and finally the game hackers. Hackers are a national resource, and it is only the ignorant who do not understand this.
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