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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 | Computers General Computer Programming Hacking hackers heroes of the computer revolution 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 computercard machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II. If you want to change the world in some big way that s where you should start biological molecules. Those are all pretty deep problems that need the same type of crazy fanaticism of youthful genius and naivete that drove the PC industry and can have the same impact on the human condition. Bill Gates Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Steven Levy is a senior writer for Wired and formerly the chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written six books including Crypto Penguin and has had articles published in Harper s Macworld the New York Times Magazine the New Yorker Premiere and Polling stone. US CAN ISBN 978-1-449-38839-3 Safari Books Online Free online edition for 45 days with purchase of this book. Details on last page. o REILLY 9 781449 388393 .