Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0-385-19195-2) is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City, New York by Doubleday. Levy describes the people, the machines, and the events that defined the Hacker Culture and the Hacker Ethic, from the early mainframe hackers at MIT, to the self-made hardware hackers and game hackers.

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    2 years ago

    I’ll admit that the hackers I was thinking of when I first found this book were more of the 1337 variety, so I tossed it aside …

    years later I came back to it and have read it multiple times now.