TY - BOOK AU - Levy, Steven TI - Hackers SN - 9781449388393 AV - QA76.6 .L469 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Sebastopol, CA PB - O'Reilly Media KW - Computer programming KW - Computer engineering KW - Hackers KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Research KW - Geeks (Computer enthusiasts) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-398) and index; Who's who : the wizards and their machines — pt. 1. True hackers : Cambridge : the fifties and sixties — 1. The tech model railroad club — 2. The hacker ethic — 3. Spacewar — 4. Greenblatt and Gosper — 5. The midnight computer wiring society — 6. Winners and losers — 7. Life — pt. 2. Hardware hackers : northern California : the seventies — 8. Revolt in 2100 — 9. Every man a god — 10. The homebrew computer club — 11. Tiny basic — 12. Woz — 13. Secrets — pt. 3. Game hackers : the Sierras : the eighties14. The wizard and the princess — 15. The brotherhood — 16. The third generation — 17. Summer camp — 18. Frogger — 19. Applefest — 20. Wizard vs. wizards — pt. 4. The last of the true hackers: Cambridge: 1983; B3ASP Digital Marketing: Framework and Overview N2 - 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 ER -