Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
 

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy, Steven Levy

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 ... (read more)

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an excellent atlas mapping the history of the hacking culture...from the MIT Railroad Club to the modern legion of hackers...I give it a FIVE!!!

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