Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer

Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer Book Description

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.

About the Author
Steven Levy is a senior writer for Wired. Previously, he was chief technology writer and a senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written six books and had articles published in Harper's, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Premiere, and Rolling Stone. Steven has won several awards during his 30+ years of writing about technology, including Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best Sci-Tech book written in the last twenty years and, Crypto, which won the grand eBook prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book festival.

Table of Contents
True Hackers: Cambridge: The Fifties and Sixties

• Chapter 1 The Tech Model Railroad Club
• Chapter 2 The Hacker Ethic
• Chapter 3 Spacewar
• Chapter 4 Greenblatt and Gosper
• Chapter 5 The Midnight Computer Wiring Society
• Chapter 6 Winners and Losers
• Chapter 7 Life

• Chapter 8 Revolt in 2100
• Chapter 9 Every Man a God
• Chapter 10 The Homebrew Computer Club
• Chapter 11 Tiny BASIC
• Chapter 12 Woz
• Chapter 13 Secrets

• Chapter 14 The Wizard and the Princess
• Chapter 15 The Brotherhood
• Chapter 16 The Third Generation
• Chapter 17 Summer Camp
• Chapter 18 Frogger
• Chapter 19 Applefest
• Chapter 20 Wizard vs. Wizards
• The Last of the True Hackers: Cambridge: 1983
• Appendix The Last of the True Hackers
• Appendix Afterword: Ten Years After
• Appendix Afterword: 2010
• Appendix Notes
• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Appendix Acknowledgments
• Appendix About the Author
• Colophon

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