Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Published in 1984, Hackers is universally acknowledged as the core history of computer culture. Almost forty years after its appearance, readers keep coming to this chronicle of three generations of hacking—hacking in the true, creative sense where brilliant coders create magic with their fingertips. The book introduces the concept of the Hacker Ethic, which depicts a mindset that began at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s, and flourishes to this day as the wizardly of hackers powers the computers so deeply embedded in our lives.
A personal note: a week seldom passes without a note from the blue telling me, “This book changed my life.” I was so lucky as an author to mine this precious source material.
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Praise
“Levy does for computers what Tom Wolfe did for space in The Right Stuff. Both are behind-the-scenes tales of elite athletes pursuing potent new technologies; both are vividly written; both are inspiring.”
— Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Review
“A huge job hugely well done.”