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O’Reilly published this year a new updated edition of the book Hackers: Heroes of the Digital Revolution from Stevy Levin. The book tells the history of a subculture that arose in the late fifties. The book starts in Building 26 with a boy wandering down the corridors in the middle of the night. The boy is Peter Samson, who will become one of the first generation hackers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Peter Samson is one of the many hackers mentioned in the book; the most important of them (the so-called Wizards) along with several machines are described in the preface of the book. Small, sometimes funny, descriptions accompany the names. John Draper, for example, is ‘the notorous “Capitain Crunch” who fearlessly explored phone systems, was jailed and later hacked microcomputers. Cigarettes made him violent” (xii)  Even though Levy covers a lot of ground in 477 pages, it still is a remarkably coherent story. Levy talks about young hackers and their obsessive passion for the machine, about long nights spent trying to tame their mechanical beasts.
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