Full name: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Author: Steven Levy Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780141000510 9781449388393 0141000511 1449388396

This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic," that still thrives today. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II. Similar books: Artificial Life by Steven Levy In The Plex by Steven Levy The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatalla Accidental empires by Robert X. Cringely In the Beginning...Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson Engines of the Mind by Joel N. Shurkin Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan A computer called LEO by Georgina Ferry A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough