Preface
Levy decided to write about the subject of hackers because he thought they were fascinating people. He also wanted to present a more accurate view of hackers than the one most people had. Levy found them to be “adventurers, visionaries, risk-takers, artists” rather than “nerdy social outcasts or 'unprofessional' programmers who wrote dirty, 'nonstandard' computer code.”
For this book, Levy talked to many different hackers, who were active from the 1950s until the 1980s.
Read more about this topic: Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer Revolution
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