Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revol..., Steven Levy
Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revol..., Steven Levy
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Author: Steven Levy

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 20 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2015

Synopsis

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 computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.

About Steven Levy

Steven Levy is Wired's editor at large. The Washington Post has called him "America's premier technology journalist." His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written eight books, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the past twenty years; and for Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry on March 24, 2012

This book, the original version, changed my life when I read it in high school. It, along with "The Cuckoo's Egg", put me on the road to computer science in college.......more

Goodreads review by Elin on August 03, 2014

I don't usually review before finishing but I'm not sure I'll get through this one so might as well. It's a bloated and repetitive book that focuses on a very specific area and drags it out as far as you can conceivably take it. The author seems to think the people in the book are extraordinarily in......more

Goodreads review by Noah on March 17, 2013

This book is divided into three basic sections. The first, about MIT hackers in the 1950's and 1960's, is outstanding. The second, about homebrew hardware culture in the Bay Area in the 1960's and 1970's, is decent but bloated. The third, about game hackers and Sierra On-Line, is mostly worthless. I......more

Goodreads review by Willian on April 21, 2021

I'm migrating all my reviews to my blog. I'm keeping the old version here (because it makes sense to do it) but you can read the latest one on my blog: [URL not allowed] Great book. John Carmack said it was the most inspiring book for him and I can understand why. The word Hacke......more

Goodreads review by Ricky on August 01, 2017

I can overlook some sexism. Especially if a narrative just "forgets" to mention people who aren't men. This book goes a step further to imply that women aren't as good at hacking/math/computers as men which is bullshit. As if the first programmer wasn't a woman (Ada Lovelace). As if the first compil......more

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