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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,654 ratings — published 1984
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,846 ratings — published 1981
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,538 ratings — published 2000
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,998 ratings — published 1996
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,638 ratings — published 2014
The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 966 ratings — published 2005
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,364 ratings — published 1984
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,770 ratings — published 2003
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,708 ratings — published 2001
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,800 ratings — published 1989
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,751 ratings — published 2012
UNIX: A History and a Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,226 ratings — published 2019
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,395,182 ratings — published 2011
Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 508 ratings — published 1999
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 838 ratings — published 2009
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 896 ratings — published 1999
Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,339 ratings — published 1994
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,429 ratings — published 2004
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,322 ratings — published 2012
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,040 ratings — published 2011
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company – A Biography from Unprecedented Archives of the Digital Age Founders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 846 ratings — published 2014
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 28,129 ratings — published 2011
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,089 ratings — published 2001
The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 942 ratings — published 1984
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,001 ratings — published 1992
A History of Modern Computing, second edition (History of Computing)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 191 ratings — published 1998
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 355 ratings — published 2017
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,508 ratings — published 2011
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,036 ratings — published 1992
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,632 ratings — published 2006
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,907 ratings — published 1999
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,353 ratings — published 1999
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,156 ratings — published 1999
A New History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 30 ratings — published
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,701 ratings — published 2017
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,815 ratings — published 2013
Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 249 ratings — published 1996
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,044 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 352 ratings — published 2010
Commodore: The Amiga Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 150 ratings — published 2017
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,324 ratings — published 1975
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,306 ratings — published 1993
The Making of Prince of Persia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,029 ratings — published 2011
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 222 ratings — published 1985
Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 162 ratings — published 1986
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,532 ratings — published 2019
Game Engine Black Book: Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 405 ratings — published 2018
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,055 ratings — published 2017
Computing: A Concise History (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.55 — 657 ratings — published 2012
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,599 ratings — published 1993
“We invented a whole new class of computer programming languages known as list processing languages. The basic idea is that whenever a piece of information is stored in memory, additional information should be stored with it telling where to find the next associated piece of information.”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
“Diffie was one of a legion of bright young men who, were it not for the Vietnam War, would probably not have considered the idea of military-funded basic research. But it seemed like a reasonable compromise when facing the equally dismal alternatives of being shipped to Indochina, fleeing to Canada, or going to jail.”
― What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
― What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry