HACKER Q&A
📣 pkdpic

What should I read next?


I just finished Weaving the Web by Tim BL.

Liked the tech history story-time vibe a lot more than I was expecting.

Looking for something similar or slightly more hacky ("hacky") whatever that might mean.


  👤 Blackstrat Accepted Answer ✓
I have Issacson’s The Innovators in queue but haven’t started it yet. The following I’ve read:

Hackers by Levy, Soul of the Machine by Kidder, The Cuckoo’s Egg by Stoll, Turing’s Cathedral by Dyson

All are older but give a good perspective of the early days of the computer revolution.


👤 CelticBard
When We Ceased to Understand the World by Benjamin Labtaut

👤 lurker137
Unix: A History and a Memoir By Brian Kernighan

👤 mbgu
Notes from Underground

👤 ac2u
Masters of Doom

👤 hulitu
Mosaic (first web browser) source code.

👤 elhesuu
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner.