Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

Paperback

Published May 30, 2010

About the author

Steven Levy is editor at large at Wired, and author of eight books, including the new Facebook: the Inside Story, the definitive history of that controversial company. His previous works include the legendary computer history Hackers, Artificial Life, the Unicorn 's Secret, In the Plex (the story of Google, chose as Amazon and Audible's best business book of 2011), and Crypto, which won the Frankfurt E-book Award for the best non-fiction book of 2001. He was previously the chief technology correspondent for Newsweek. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Samuel Taggart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I quite enjoyed this book.

It's very interesting that a lot of the debates that existed back then are still relevant. I chuckled a lot reading about coding sharing in the MIT days and thinking all the discussion around "open source" projects today. A lot of the same themes come up.

[Jaap Jansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ery interesting book about hacker culture. It is a bit too long and mentions a lot of people that do not move the story forward. I guess the selection of names being dropped is sometimes random. However, still a pleasure to read!