And of course the gamers were out to make money. Whereas the hippies - or at least some of the influential folks in that scene - actually cared about the rest of the world. (There's some interesting moments of cognitive dissonance of the radical openness within the lab vs the military funding for the lab.) Which meant they were doing fascinating crazy stuff, but it didn't necessarily have any effect on the masses. Those MIT guys really got to lock themselves away from everything, and they really liked it that way. My pet theory is that it relates to engagement with the rest of the world. Shockingly, the hippie hacker community actually manage to get more shit done. The first section is all MIT hackers, the other two are west coast focused (hippie hackers and the gaming biz). Note: this is a really long and somewhat rambling review.Ī few themes stick out, notably West coast vs East coast. (the goodreads entry says this has more pages than the copy I have, btw.) All the status updates I posted are notes I wrote on paper while I was reading, alas I ran out of scraps while sick in bed, somewhere around pg 350. "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.I'm still sort of processing this book a week later.
They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic," that still thrives today. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems.
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.
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. 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.
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