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Why is this on here?
by OddMerlin 10y ago
Why is this on here?
- stuxnet79 10y agoWilliam Gibson is always relevant on HN. He single-handedly made hackers and hacking cool in the early-to-mid 80s. A pity that he was never technically proficient, but perhaps that would have compromised his art somewhat.
- jefurii 10y agoWilliam Gibson articulated some of the metaphors and mental imagery that became a significant way that non-technical people came to understand computing and the internet in the 1990s.