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A Brief History of Hackerdom
by Eric S. Raymond
$Date: 2000/05/05 18:57:21 $
I explore the origins of the hacker culture, including prehistory
among the Real Programmers, the glory days of the MIT AI Lab, and how
the early ARPANET nurtured the first network nation. Storm clouds
over Jupiter. I describe the early rise and eventual stagnation of
Unix, the new hope from Finland, and how `the last true hacker' became
the next generation's patriarch. I sketch the way Linux and the
mainstreaming of the Internet brought the hacker culture from the
fringes of public consciousness to its current prominence.
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