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Hacker Culture
An annotated collection of 2 books on hacker culture, spanning 1984 to 2001. Featuring works by Steven Levy, Linus Torvalds & David Diamond — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy, 1984 · Anchor Press / Doubleday
The original hacker ethic: do it, try it, share it. Levy documents how a culture that started in an MIT model-railroad club at night turned into the way the software industry actually works — by building in the open, by…
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Linus Torvalds & David Diamond, 2001 · HarperCollins
The story of Linux told by its creator. Torvalds started building an operating system as a personal project — no business plan, no ambition to change the world. What began "just for fun" ended up as critical infrastructu…