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I'll second Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution, I found that a really fascinating book.
by deutronium 11y ago
I'll second Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution, I found that a really fascinating book.
- veddox 11y agoAbsolutely. It does a great job of showing the spirit of the early hackers at MIT, even though it's not really a technical book.
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- ritchiea 11y agoHackers was a fun read but I don't think it's really an answer to the original question asking about computing history and expressing a concern that our field has a short memory. The OP's complaint was that most history stops at Turing and everything in Hackers is about MIT post-Turing.
- duaneb 11y ago> The OP's complaint was that most history stops at Turing and everything in Hackers is about MIT post-Turing. Before Turing, it was a handful of people obsessed with computing things efficiently. That history is difficult to extract from the hardware pre-Turing.