LoginHackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
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Steven Levy's classic book explains why the misuse of the word "hackers" to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution. Levy follows members of an MIT model railroad club--a group of brilliant budding electrical engineers and computer innovators--from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. These eccentric characters used the term "hack" to describe a clever way of improving the electronic system that ran their massive railroad. And as they started designing clever ways to improve computer systems, "hack" moved over with them
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Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media
Release date: 30 May 2010
ISBN-10 : 1449388396 | ISBN-13: 9781449388393
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Release date: 30 May 2010
ISBN-10 : 1449388396 | ISBN-13: 9781449388393
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