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It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt o
by supernetworks 1y ago
It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that
- firefax 1y agoAh ok. Weird way to cite a book title.
- aspenmayer 1y agoPreviously/related: In the Realm of the Hackers (2003) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281735
- contingencies 1y agohttps://underground-book.net/download.php3 https://underground-book.net/download.php3
- anthk 1y agoI hate it. It destroys the original concept of hackers, with the original Jargon file, the best relase (1.5). Lisp and Forth hackers are the original thinkerers. The Jargon File https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt https://hakmem.org/ https://hakmem.org/ These are actual hackers and hacks.
- contingencies 1y agoThat ship had sailed well before the ~1997 launch of the book. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) (1995) or http://www.takedown.com/ http://www.takedown.com/ (1996)
- anthk 1y agoHacker Crackdown. The PC scene ruined everything.
- firefax 1y ago>These are actual hackers [clicks] >The certificate for hakmem.org expired on 5/8/2021.
- hulitu 1y agoThanks. How the world evolved: "Also, if you're curious, view the WebMake source file (warning: this contains the entire book text and markup: 948k in total). "