Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. That was before one pioneering work documented the underground c…

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