**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations* Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts, and further information is included below. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Back cover.COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg Etext, Details Below Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy (C)1984 by Steven Levy Please take a look at the important information in this header. And in the Internet age, "the hacker ethic" - first espoused here - is alive and well. With groundbreaking profiles of Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club, and more, Steven Levy's Hackers brilliantly captures a seminal moment when the risk takers and explorers were poised to conquer twentieth-century America's last great frontier.
That was before one pioneering work documented the underground computer revolution that was about to change our world forever. And a media obsessed with the digital explosion has reappropriated the term "computer nerd" so that it's practically synonymous with "entrepreneur." Yet, a mere fifteen years ago, wireheads hooked on tweaking endless lines of code were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. Owning the most powerful computer, the latest high-tech gadget, and the whizziest website is a status symbol on a par with having a flashy car or a designer suit.
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