Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
First edition
SubjectHacker culture
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherAnchor Press/Doubleday
Publication date
1984
ISBN0-385-19195-2
OCLC10605060
001.64/2/0922 19
LC ClassQA76.6 .L469 1984

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0-385-19195-2) is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City, New York by Doubleday. Levy describes the people, the machines, and the events that defined the Hacker culture and the Hacker Ethic, from the early mainframe hackers at MIT, to the self-made hardware hackers and game hackers.

The book saw an edition with a new afterword (entitled "Afterword: Ten Years After") by the author in 1994.[1] In 2010, a 25th anniversary edition with updated material was published by O'Reilly.[2]

  1. ^ Dell/Doubleday, New York NY, 1994 (ISBN 0-385-31210-5)
  2. ^ O'Reilly Media Inc., Sebastopol CA, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-449-38839-3)