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Also by Steven Levy:

In The Plex, April 2011
Hardcover
Hackers, June 2010
Paperback
Crypto:, January 2002
Paperback / e-Book

HACKERS
By: Steven Levy

Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

O'Reilly Media
June 2010
On Sale: May 20, 2010
528 pages
ISBN: 1449388396
EAN: 9781449388393
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

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 Zukerberg, 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.

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