![]() ![]() You can create art and beauty on a computer.Hackers should be judged by their hacking (a meritocratic society).Mistrust Authority – promote Decentralization. ![]() In his attempts to explore what hackers actually are, Levy defines the so-called Hacker Ethic, which reads as follows: Levy talks about young hackers and their obsessive passion for the machine, about long nights spent trying to tame their mechanical beasts. Cigarettes made him violent” (xii) Even though Levy covers a lot of ground in 477 pages, it still is a remarkably coherent story. John Draper, for example, is ‘the notorous “Capitain Crunch” who fearlessly explored phone systems, was jailed and later hacked microcomputers. Small, sometimes funny, descriptions accompany the names. Peter Samson is one of the many hackers mentioned in the book the most important of them (the so-called Wizards) along with several machines are described in the preface of the book. The boy is Peter Samson, who will become one of the first generation hackers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The book starts in Building 26 with a boy wandering down the corridors in the middle of the night. ![]() The book tells the history of a subculture that arose in the late fifties. O’Reilly published this year a new updated edition of the book Hackers: Heroes of the Digital Revolution from Stevy Levin. Full time New Media student, part time geek. ![]()
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