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Eric Raymond
A Brief History of Hackerdom
17.8.1999
Prehistory among the Real Programmers. Origins of the hacker culture. The glory days of the MIT AI Lab. How the early ARPANET nurtured the first network nation. Storm clouds over Jupiter. The rise of Unix. How `the last true hacker' became the next generation's patriarch. Unix flourishes, then stagnates. New hope from Finland. The great Web explosion. Hackers and free speech.
Contents
Prologue: The Real Programmers
The Early Hackers
The Rise of Unix
The End of Elder Days
The Proprietary-Unix Era
The Early Free Unixes
The Great Web Explosion
Bibliography
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