In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

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This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" ( Newsweek ) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and... read more

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Around the time that Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, and Allen were dreaming up these unlikely schemes, I was a teen living in Ames, Iowa.

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Neal Stephenson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Avon Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0380815931
Page Count: 160

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Dewey: 005.43

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Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Communication › Technology & Society
Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
Books › Computers & Internet › Operating Systems

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