Hackers
by Steven Levy
Levy's 1984 history of the hacker ethic from MIT's model railroad club through the homebrew era to the game companies, with the principles that shaped computing culture. A foundational tech-history text.
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you want the origin of hacker culture and the ethic behind open systems.
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you want modern tech history.
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Hacker culture's origin.
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