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Hackers - Steven Levy

Description: ISBN 0141000511 / Author: Steven Levy / Genre: Computer / IT / Heroes of the Computer Revolution? - an introduction to the world of ... more

Hackers - Steven Levy ... hackers and the characters that inhabit it.

Newest Review: ... earliest days of the Tech Model Railroad Club hackers at MIT in the late 50’s through to the game designers of the mid ... more

... 80’s, Levy takes the reader on a tour through some of the most important milestones in the history of computing. Among the characters covered in the book are the first generation of hackers, the students at MIT who fought against the system, with its batch processed IBM computers, ruled by the high priests who were the only ones privileged enough to touch the sacred machines. These hackers believed that computers should be for all, not just those entrusted to protect them from the masses. Levy covers the phi...more

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Hackers - Steven Levy: Heroes of the computer revolution (586 words)
by - written on 13/02/01 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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Contrary to popular opinion, hackers are not the people who trash computer systems because they feel like it. They are not the same people who try to steal your credit cards on the web, or deface websites. Instead, hackers are people for whom computing is an art form. For them, the power to control technology is what inspires them, not childish vandalism of others property. Crackers on the other hand, are intent merely on causing as much trouble as possible. To quote the back cover of Hackers: “Society regarded them as misfits, people who interfered in computer programming and disrupted worldwide systems. Yet in their own minds, they were ... Read the complete review

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