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Hackers - 25th Anniversary Edition |
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Alex
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Twenty-five years ago the term 'hacker' didn't mean a cybercriminal, and the few who used it meant it as high praise. When Hackers first came out in 1984, Steven Levy was documenting how thirty years of brilliant and eccentric geeks (who were more interested in bending technology to their will than in building businesses, or even in what computers can actually do) had somehow produced a personal computer revolution that was about to sweep into every home.
He was doing it on their own terms, in their own words; trying to define what a hacker was (the 'hacker ethic of sharing, openness, decentralization') while suggesting that human nature is always part of the computing world and pointing out that many of them had grown up, moved on or been superseded.
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