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A Brief History of Hackerdom

by Eric S. Raymond

$Date: 1999/08/17 05:54:46 $

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.

1. Prologue: The Real Programmers

2. The Early Hackers

3. The Rise of Unix

4. The End of Elder Days

5. The Proprietary-Unix Era

6. The Early Free Unixes

7. The Great Web Explosion

8. Bibliography

9. Version and Change History

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