Levy's book is at its best in describing the early MIT hackers
at the Model Railroad Club and the early days of the
microcomputer revolution. He never understood Unix or the
networks, though, and his enshrinement of Richard Stallman as
"the last true hacker" turns out (thankfully) to have been quite
misleading. Despite being a bit dated and containing some minor
errors (many fixed in the paperback edition), this remains a
useful and stimulating book that captures the feel of several
important hacker subcultures.
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